wood, black patina, a larger female and a smaller male figure with loincloth, carved with projecting disc-shaped coiffures, pupils with drilled holes, tribal marks on cheeks and forehead, slightly dam., missing parts at the back of the males hairdo;
hands in the Akinyode position, with thumb and forefinger forming an O, diamond-shaped signs on the underside of the base.
H: 24 cm resp. 26 cm
Provenance:
German Private Collection, Hamburg
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
Lit.: Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 115, ill. 9
Continent: Africa

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