Zemanek-Münster

Male pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Omu Aran
sold EUR 2,600
Provenance
René David, Zurich, Switzerland
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1983)
Size
H: 31,5 cm
H: 12.4 inch

Description

wood, brown patina, black paint at the coiffure, two strings of glassbeads, three strings with coconut-discs, encrustations with camwood powder, diamond-shaped eyes, vaulted pupils with drilled holes, tapering mouth situated at the tip of the chin, incised linear tattoos on the cheeks, slightly dam., cracks, rep. (ankles/base of one figure)


Comparing literature

Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, o. J. 2008, ill. 579 f. Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 320

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