Zemanek-Münster

Male twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila-Orangun · ID: 3036961

Vendu 300 €
Provenance
Graf Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein, Munich, Germany

Description

wood, matt middle brown patina, indigo blue pigment at the coiffure, richly encrusted with “osun”, characteristic traits: the artificial crown-shaped coiffure, the carved islamic triangle “tirah” on breast and back, slender body with both hands resting aside the thighs, small traces of insect caused damage (coiffure, backside), cracks in the mass and in the wood (right shoulder)


Littérature comparée

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 299, ill. 194


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