Two Yoruba male Ibeji figures Igbuke

Two Yoruba male Ibeji figures

Igbuke, Oyo, Nigeria

wood, with lobed coiffures, one with a gathered braids and drawn down with triangular motifs, blue stain and with facial and body scarifications, wearing glass and sliced nut beads,

30.5cm high,

the other with remains of blue to the coiffure and with similar facial and body scarifications, 31cm high. (2)

Provenance

The Michael and Renate Lancaster collection.

cf. Xavier Richer, Ibeji, 2016. p.94/95 for a female Ibeji with the same coiffure