Female twin figure "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, Ilorin / Kwara State, Egbe

sold EUR 350

Provenance

Ketterer, Munich, 6 December 1985, lot 131

Size

H: 29,8 cm

H: 11.7 inch

Description

wood, pigments, camwood powder, metal rings, glass beads, nail heads (eyes), insect caused missing parts

Long years of use in the cult have rendered the facial contures of this figure barely recognizable.

Stoll, Gert & Mareidi, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, ill. 172

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