Female twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeokuta · ID: 3036556

Description

wood, rich blackish brown shiny patina, abundant decor with strings of miniature glass beads and coconut discs around hips and neck, heavy brass rings around the wrists, striking beautiful modelled facial features, elaborate coiffure, metal tags as pupils preserved, lancet-shaped scarification marks on forehead and cheeks strongly abraded, slightly dam., minor missing part (left earlap)

Comparing literature

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 118