Male twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Oshogbo · ID: 3041024
Elfie Albert, Pyrbaum, Germany (~1970)
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, black paint, two strings of coconut discs resp. miniature glass beads, two silver metal rings, distinctive posture: craning head between hanging shoulders, incised scarification marks on stomach and face, eyes with metal tag pupils, encrustations with camwood powder “osun”, traces of abrasion (nose), slightly dam. crack at the right eye (through insertion of metal tag)
The object Male twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3041024 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 324 achieved a sales price of EUR 260.
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Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 376