http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/objekt/97738
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service organization: SMVK-VKM
service organization full: Statens museer för världskultur - Världskulturmuseet
build date: 2026-08-16
url: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/97738
subject: culturalHistory
data quality: raw
item super type: object
item type: object
item key word: etnografi
item key word: förvaring
item label: kärl, offerkärl
is part of: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/samling/1711
is mentioned by: http://libris.kb.se/bib/3618751
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Beskrivning
  desc: From the Fon of Dahomey (see 109). The Fon have a twin cult similar to that of the Yoruba (see section on the ibeji cult in my article on Yoruba art in L´Art Nègre, 1951), but with different cult objects. When twins die, a pair of crude wooden figures (hohovi, twins) are carved, comparable to the Yoruba ibeji, but the Fon mothers also make use of these little pots for making offerings to the twins spirits to prevent further visitations (since twins commonly die a few days after birth in West Afrika, and twin births tend to run in families). If the dead twins were both male or both female, then the two linked cups both face upwards; if of different sexes, one faces up, one down, as here. One sees large numbers of both types in markets of Abomey and other Fon towns. Cf. Herskovits, Vol. I, Plate 42 (p. 276). W.B. Fagg 17.9.57.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Inventarienummer
  desc: 1931.29.0110
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Original: insamlat av
  desc: Gustaf Bolinder.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Original: lokal
  desc: Dahomey, Väst-Afrika.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Proveniens
  desc: Benin , Västafrika
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Proveniens
  desc: Dahomey. [[Haga]]
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Original: skiss eller foto
  desc: skiss
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Original: stam
  desc: (Dahomey.) Fon.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Händelse / var närvarande vid
  desc: Bolinders expedition till Västafrika (1930-1931)
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Referens, publicerad i
  desc: Årsberättelse 1931, Göteborgs museum, Årstryck 1932
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Land, engelska
  desc: Benin @en
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Beskrivning / tidigare
  desc: Offerkärl av rödaktig lera, odekorerat. Längd 11 cm. (katalogkort/originalbeskrivning)
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  type: Materialkategori
  material: keramik
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Materialkategori, engelska
  material: ceramics @en
item measurement: ItemMeasurement
  type: Längd
  value: 11
  unit: cm
item name: ItemName
  type: Sakord
  name: kärl
item name: ItemName
  type: Sakord
  name: offerkärl
item number: ItemNumber
  type: Inventarienummer
  number: 1931.29.0110
context: Bolinder, Gustaf Wilhelm
  type: Context
  context label: Insamlad
  context type: transact
  context super type: interact
  intermediary: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1021421
context: Context
  context label: Ursprung
  context type: use
  context super type: interact
  country: bj
  continent name: Afrika
  country name: Benin
context: Context
  context label: Förvärvad
  context type: transact
  context super type: interact
  from time: 1931
  to time: 1931
image: Image
  media type: image/jpeg
  byline: Schwetz, Ferenc
  copyright: Statens museer för världskultur
  media license: by
  media license url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  thumbnail source: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/image/tn/1072641/tn
  lowres source: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/image/zoom/1072642/zoom
item license: cc0
item license url: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
thumbnail: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/image/tn/1072641/tn
presentation: 1.3.0 2026-08-16 kärl, offerkärl Rådata 97738 objekt Statens museer för världskultur - Världskulturmuseet SMVK-VKM Föremål http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/objekt/97738 1931.29.0110 From the Fon of Dahomey (see 109). The Fon have a twin cult similar to that of the Yoruba (see section on the ibeji cult in my article on Yoruba art in L´Art Nègre, 1951), but with different cult objects. When twins die, a pair of crude wooden figures (hohovi, twins) are carved, comparable to the Yoruba ibeji, but the Fon mothers also make use of these little pots for making offerings to the twins spirits to prevent further visitations (since twins commonly die a few days after birth in West Afrika, and twin births tend to run in families). If the dead twins were both male or both female, then the two linked cups both face upwards; if of different sexes, one faces up, one down, as here. One sees large numbers of both types in markets of Abomey and other Fon towns. Cf. Herskovits, Vol. I, Plate 42 (p. 276). W.B. Fagg 17.9.57. 1931.29.0110, Gustaf Bolinder., Dahomey, Väst-Afrika., Benin , Västafrika, Dahomey. [[Haga]], skiss, (Dahomey.) Fon., Bolinders expedition till Västafrika (1930-1931), Årsberättelse 1931, Göteborgs museum, Årstryck 1932, Benin, Offerkärl av rödaktig lera, odekorerat. Längd 11 cm. (katalogkort/originalbeskrivning) Insamlad Bolinder, Gustaf Wilhelm Ursprung Afrika, Benin image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/image/tn/1072641/tn https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/image/zoom/1072642/zoom http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Schwetz, Ferenc Statens museer för världskultur http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/samling/1711 http://libris.kb.se/bib/3618751 https://kulturnav.org/672c3018-a5d0-4104-8afa-a0ad0a9c40b4 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1021421 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/objekt/html/97738 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/objekt/xml/97738 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-VKM/objekt/rdf/97738