Standing female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila Area · ID: 3033858
Description
wood, brown patina, blackish blue paint (coiffure and feet), three strings with coconut discs, resp. glass beads, encrustations with camwood powder, the pupils inset with metal tags, eyes with triangular framing, visible teeth with filed incisors, vertical scarification marks on the cheeks, feet in high sandals, slightly dam., rep. with metal clamps (right foot);
in the style of the carver Dagikonle of Igbomole. A very similar pair of figures pictured at G. Stoll, 1980, ill. 192.
The object Standing female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3033858 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 358.
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Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, ill. 192