Zemanek-Münster

Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, southern Egba Area
not available anymore
Provenance
Gert Stoll, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Size
H: 22,5 cm
H: 8.9 inch

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)


Publications

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

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