Female twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Egba/Egbado - Shaki · ID: 3036985

Description

wood, brown patina, shiny or encrusted with “osun”, necklace with glass beads, extreme short legs, elongated trunk and arms, carved navel with radial tattoos, no tribal marks on the face, large eyes with framing eyelashes and nailheads (pupils), coiffure pierced in the middle, missing parts through insect caused damage (coiffure, back of the head, base), cracks (backside)

Littérature comparée

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 138, ill. 36 & p. 242 ff.