Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeoukuta · ID: 3033312
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
German Private Collection, HamburgHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
Size
H: 24 cm resp. 26 cm
H: 9.4 inch resp. 10.2 inch
Description
wood, black patina, a larger female and a smaller male figure with loincloth, carved with projecting disc-shaped coiffures, pupils with drilled holes, tribal marks on cheeks and forehead, slightly dam., missing parts at the back of the males hairdo;
hands in the Akinyode position, with thumb and forefinger forming an O, diamond-shaped signs on the underside of the base.
Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 115, ill. 9