Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Ede · ID: 3042326
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Provenance
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s)Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Size
H: 28,5 cm
H: 11.2 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, indigo blue pigment, red wood powder, two strings of glass beads, one string with tiny coconut discs, prominent face with diamond-shaped eyes (with notched eye-lashes), tripartite nose and small mouth, forehead and face sides covered with linear incised scarification marks, crown-shaped pierced coiffure, slightly dam., abrasion of paint
The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3042326 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 338.
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Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 370