Pair of male twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo (Kwara State), Illorin · ID: 3037891

Description

wood, matt middle brown patina, black paint, camwood powder, three strings with coconut discs and miniature glass beads, strong arms, accentuated breasts, the high towering hairdo arranged in four lobes, big circular eyes with drilled pupils (metal tags missing), incised scarification marks, mouth and nose part with traces of abrasion deriving from repeated feeding procedures, slightly dam., cracks

The object Pair of male twin figures “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3037891 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 303 achieved a sales price of EUR 700.

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