Female twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Iseyin · ID: 3041596

Description

wood, beautiful reddish brown patina, traces of black paint, camwood powder, two strings (coconut discs/miniature glass beads), metal tag pupils, remains of cord material (ear ornament), pear-shaped face with large eyes and incised scarification marks, towering coiffure in four lobes, narrow sloping shoulders, facial features abraded, slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage (coiffure), continuous crack on the left side of head and body, partly spread with mass, in place of the coiffure a piece of wood seems to have been reinserted

The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3041596 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 287 achieved a sales price of EUR 520.

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Comparing literature

Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 419