Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeokuta · ID: 3042917

Description

Holz, rich blackish brown patina, indigo blue pigment, abundantly adorned with strings of colourful miniature glass beads (9/resp. 11), drilled pupils, typical Abeokuta carving style characteristics: high crested coiffures, tribal marks and unusual hand posture, one of the figures “signed” at the bottom of the base with diamond-shaped emblem, slightly dam., bases of both of the figures marked by insect caused damage

Comparing literature

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 108