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Female twin figure "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, Ilorin / Kwara State, Egbe

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Ketterer, Munich, 6 December 1985, lot 131 H: 11.7 inch sold

wood, pigments, camwood powder, metal rings, glass beads, nail heads (eyes), insect caused missing parts

Long years of use in the cult have rendered the facial contures of this figure barely recognizable.


Stoll, Gert & Mareidi, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, ill. 172