Female twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina · ID: 3034681

Description

wood, shiny dark brown patina, black paint, strings with coconut discs and miniature glass beads, strong encrustations with clay and camwood powder “osun”, a pear-shaped face with pyramidal protruding eyes and tapering mouth, scarifications on the cheeks, old collection number handwritten in white paint at the bottom of the base “1693”, slightly dam. (right ear), cracks in the spread material (ankles), rubbed facial features (from feeding procedures)

The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3034681 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 278.

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