Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Kwara State, Ilorin, Egbe · ID: 3037623

Description

wood, brown patina, black paint, camwood powder, five metal rings, two characteristic features of Egbe “ibeji”: the crown-shaped hairdo and the position of the hands with both resting in front of the belly, the faces are flat with its features rubbed off through long ears of use in the cult, characteristic tribal marks on cheeks and forehead, eyes with inlay, slightly dam.

The object Pair of twin figures “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3037623 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 325.

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Publications

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 280, ill. 171