Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"

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Description

wood, dark brown patina, encrustations with redwood powder, indigo blue pigment, adorned with strings of glass beads, the eyes inset with metal tags (one missing), lancet-shaped scarification marks on the cheeks, accentuation of the female sex characteristics, drilled ear holes, slightly dam. (rim of the disc-shaped coiffure);
in the style of the carver Dagikonle of Igbomole.

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Littérature comparée

Thompson, Robert Farris, Black Gods and Kings, Los Angeles 1971, ill. 75 Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 297, ill. 192

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