Lot: 240

91 Tribal Art Auction

Female twin figure "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Igbuke style

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Lore Kegel & Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (collected in Oyo, 1956) H: 11.6 inch sold

wood, camwood powder, coconut discs, glass beads, drilled pupils, beautiful washing patina

In the style of the "Igbuke" family of carvers, the typical marks on the abdomen and the grooved ornamentation around the base are easily recognizable.


Stoll, Gert & Mareidi, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 161, ill. 57