Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeoukuta · ID: 3033312

Description

wood, black patina, a larger female and a smaller male figure with loincloth, carved with projecting disc-shaped coiffures, pupils with drilled holes, tribal marks on cheeks and forehead, slightly dam., missing parts at the back of the males hairdo;
hands in the Akinyode position, with thumb and forefinger forming an O, diamond-shaped signs on the underside of the base.

Littérature comparée

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 115, ill. 9