Zemanek-Münster

Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Kwara State, Ilorin area / Yoruba, Egbe · ID: 3048109

sold EUR 800
Provenance
Mallam Abba Kallah, Hausa trader, Nigeria
Balint B. Denes, Arizona, USA (coll. in the 1960s)
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 September 2009, Lot 286
Walter Grasser, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch

Description

wood, camwood powder, indigo blue pigment,
Two characteristic features distinguish “ibeji” from the small town of Egbe: the hands folded over the belly and the high crown-shaped hairstyles.

In these beautiful specimens, the facial features are heavily rubbed due to many years of treatment in the cult.


The object Pair of twin figures “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3048109 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 81 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.

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Comparing literature

Stoll, Gert & Mareidi, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, ill. 172 Chemeche, George, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, Milan 2003, ill. 216


Publications

AHDRC: 0108850


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