Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ogbomosho · ID: 3034426
Udo Petry, Hohnhorst, Germany
Description
wood, shiny dark brown patina, encrustations with camwood powder, black paint at the crested five-lobed coiffure, the eyes inset with metal tags, incised scarification marks on body and face, the mouth extremely rubbed off (through feeding procedures), slightly dam., minor missing parts
The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3034426 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 233.
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Comparing literature
Jantzen, Hanni, Doppel-Leben, München 1993, p. 33