Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, southern Egba Area · ID: 3037622

Description

wood, mat brown patina, male/female, the latter with necklace from blue glass beads, individual hairdo, bodies and facial features well-formed, both figures recognizably made by the same hand, slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage (above all on the underside of the two bases, right side of the females head/coiffure of the male)

The object Pair of twin figures “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3037622 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 330.

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Publications

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 130, ill. 28