Zemanek-Münster

Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, Ibadan
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

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