A pair of Yoruba female Ibeji Nigeria wood with quadripartite and arched coiffure with Reckitt's...

A pair of Yoruba female Ibeji

Nigeria

wood with quadripartite and arched coiffure with Reckitt's blue, with large eyes with lashes, tripartite nose and bulging lips, scarifications, wearing glass and shell beads, on circular bases with linear incisions,

26.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Collected in the Nigeria during the 1950's.

cf. Zemanek-Munster, 31st October 2015 for a male and female pair by the same carver.