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Figure jumelle "ere ibeji"

Nigéria, Yoruba, Ilorin / Etat de Kwara, Egbe

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Ketterer, Munich, 6 December 1985, lot 131 H: 29,8 cm Vendu

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