Female twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Oshogbo · ID: 3041591

Description

wood, brown patina, black pigment, encrustations with camwood powder “osun”, abundantly adorned with four strings of coconut discs and one string with miniature glass beads, metal tag pupils, back and shoulders coated with concentrical scarification marks, facial features strongly abraded by repeated feeding procedures, slightly dam., minor missing parts (nape)

The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3041591 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 285 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.

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