Figure jumelle "ere ibeji" · Nigéria, Yoruba, Oyo, Ede · ID: 3042326
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Provenance
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s)Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Description
wood, brown patina, indigo blue pigment, red wood powder, two strings of glass beads, one string with tiny coconut discs, prominent face with diamond-shaped eyes (with notched eye-lashes), tripartite nose and small mouth, forehead and face sides covered with linear incised scarification marks, crown-shaped pierced coiffure, slightly dam., abrasion of paint
Littérature comparée
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 370