Lot: 107

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Male pair of twin figures

Benin, Fon

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
German Private Collection H: 7.3 inch / 7.9 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, miniature glass beads,
Even the Fon practice, like the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ewe of Togo, the twin cult in which figures are carved to commemorate a deceased twin.


Bofinger, Brigitte & Wolfgang, Puppen aus Afrika, Stuttgart 2006, p. 47