Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeokuta · ID: 3036557
sold
EUR 2,400
Provenance
Rolf Miehler, Munich, GermanyInge Arendts, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 22,5 cm
H: 8.9 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, traces of black paint, strings of miniature glass beads, striking: a necklace of small chevron-beads with a broad red bar-shaped bead in the centre, beautiful modelled facial features with eyes situated wide apart from each other, metal tags as pupils missing, tattoos on cheeks and belly, both hands closed to fists, encrusted patina at a place above the forehead
Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 120