Paire de figures de jumelles "ere ibeji" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba, Oyo / Ilorin · ID: 3042731

Description

wood, brown patina, encrusted with camwood powder, remains of indigo blue pigment, richly adorned with four metal rings and strings of glassbeads, shell- and coconut-discs, facial features strongly abraded by repeated feeding procedures, slightly dam., missing parts (backside: base of both figures)

Littérature comparée

Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 472 and 485