Couple of female twin figures "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Oshogbo · ID: 3042324
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s)Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Size
H: 25,5 cm/26 cm
H: 10.0 inch/10.2 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, indigo blue and red pigment, diamond-shaped eyes with framing eyelashes and drilled pupils (metal tags missing), flat noses with hanging tip, pursed lips, concentrical linear tattoos, scarifications on the stomach, string of glass discs around hips, one figure with cowrie shell pendant, slightly dam., cracks
Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 381