Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ibadan · ID: 3032859
sold
EUR 780
Provenance
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (1966)Sepp Arnemann, Hamburg, Germany
Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, camwood powder, indigo blue paint at the coiffure, strings with coconut discs, high crested coiffure with grooved pattern, drilled pupils, linear incised scarification marks on the face, hanging breasts, slightly dam., crack (pedestal)
Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 179, ill. 72