Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ijara · ID: 3038214
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Provenance
Francisco Diaz, SpainDavid Serra, Barcelona, Spain
Size
H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown shiny patina, black paint, encrustations with camwood powder, breasts, belly and back coated with linear scarification marks, carved with belt and sandals, slightly dam., crack (back), fine cracks (encrusted mass)
The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3038214 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 305.
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Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 585