Male twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila area, Igbomina tribe · ID: 3036973

Description

wood, brown patina, black paint, indigo blue pigment, strong encrustations with “osun” (camwood powder), three strings of miniature glass beads, tall figure, high towering crested hairdo with pointed ear flaps, filed incisors, upper part of the body and shoulders coated with linear scarifications, traces of abrasion (above all at the nose), some cracks in the mass the figure is rubbed with

Littérature comparée

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 297, ill. 192