Zemanek-Münster

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

Vendu 450 €
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany

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


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