Couple de figures jumeaux "ere ibeji" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba, Oyo · ID: 3042639

Description

wood, brown patina, pigment remains, camwood powder, narrow elongated head with high towering four-parted coiffure, large eyes with framing eyelashes, nose with hanging tip, pointed mouth, three lancet-shaped Oyo marks on the forehead, characteristic scarification marks on the stomach, metal tag pupils (preserved in the left eye of each of the figures), abraded facial features, abrasion of paint backside, traces of insect caused damage (backside of the base)

Littérature comparée

Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 360