Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ila · ID: 3040892
Gerhard de Vos, Dormagen, Germany
Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1992)
Description
wood, brown patina, black paint, camwood powder, three strings of coconut discs, eyes with metal tags, front side of the upper part of the body, back and upper arms coated with incised linear scarification marks, rising from free standing feet in high sandals, the face - above all the mouth area - strongly abraded through repeated feeding procedures, slightly dam., abrasion of paint (heels);
Ila-Orangun (“Ila” for short) is the capital of the Igbomina tribe. Along with Abeokuta, Oshogbo and Ekiti it forms one of the most important centres of traditional wood carving in Yoruba country.
The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3040892 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 326 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.
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Publications
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 296, ill. 191