Male twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila area, Igbomina tribe · ID: 3036973
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, GermanyGünther & Ursula Hartmann, Berlin, Germany
Size
H: 35 cm
H: 13.8 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, black paint, indigo blue pigment, strong encrustations with “osun” (camwood powder), three strings of miniature glass beads, tall figure, high towering crested hairdo with pointed ear flaps, filed incisors, upper part of the body and shoulders coated with linear scarifications, traces of abrasion (above all at the nose), some cracks in the mass the figure is rubbed with
Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 297, ill. 192