Ere Ibeji | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Twin figure
Ibeji sporting a raised hairstyle, which has been elaborated using the chip-carving technique and painted a dark blue. The protruding eyes have hollows that represent pupils. There is a metal plug in the left eye. The ears are set a long way back on the head. Decorative scars are carved in lines running vertically over the temples and cheeks and horizontally across the chin. The figure is wearing a blue and red necklace, black waist beads and a bracelet made of blue and black beads on both wrists.
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Cultural attribution
Yoruba
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Height: 280.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood, Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/2451 a
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Provenance and sources
when
1870 - 1930
when
22.03.1977
who
Privatbesitz - Former Possessors
where
Nigeria (location/origin)
Africa (location/origin)
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