Gbekre mouse oracle (Baoulé).
Ivory Coast.
Terracotta, wood, bones, metal, height: 21.5 cm.
Musée d’ethnographie, Neuchâtel.
This divinatory instrument is made with a pot with a double-bottom and a lid with a woodbase, decorated with
a female statuette, wearing a necklace and a white-iron plaque for the Papuadivination, with ten little sticks in
bone. A mouse climbed the stairs to the upper stage and moved the sticks, whose final positioning was
interpreted by the soothsayer.