Four Yoruba Ibeji figures Nigeria wood

Four Yoruba Ibeji figures

Nigeria

wood, including a female with carved zig-zags on her breasts and wearing beads, another with a washed face and with glass and coconut beads and brass bangles, another female and a male wearing a cloth gown,

24.5cm the highest. (4)

Provenance

The David Morris Collection.

Female with beads - Christie's, London, 1986

Worn face - Tunbridge Wells, 1993

Other two - Ian Auld, 1985 / 86.