print email comment close Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/oracle/index.html Description: Companion to an exhibition that presents "African artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods in order to obtain insight into human quandaries. The term 'divination' describes efforts to foretell future events." Features annotated images of objects, essays on topics such as the oracular trance and depicting servants of the spirits, maps, glossary, and bibliography. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art LII Database Information: Record 23477 created by Maria Brandt on 03/06/2007 Last modification on 12/22/2008 Published: 02/26/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23477