A good pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures, male and female figures decorated with beads and cowrie shells, white-out eyes and tribal cicatrices to the face. 26 cm length
A fine pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures, superbly carved male and female figures with fine, strongly carved bodies and ovoid heads offering strong facial features including large dome-like eyes and outward-pointing ears. The figures are adorned with strands…
A Nigerian Yoruba carved wood ibeji female figure, standing, with metal ring bracelets stacked on forearms and ankles, remnant blue pigment to carved coiffure, height 27 cm.
Yoruba Ibeji female twin protective figure, an older carving representing a deceased twin, decorated with a necklace of antique glass beads and strings of heishi bead discs around the neck, hands, waist and feet. Notes: the Yoruba have one of the world's…
Yoruba female I'beji figure to Protect a Surviving twin, Nigeria, old Yoruba twin figure for the ebegi cult, decorated with a waist string of small antique Venetian glass beads. Ibeji are symbolic representations of a deceased twin and are not carved as…
Fine pair of Ibeji figures Superbly carved male and female figures with fine, strongly carved bodies and ovoid heads offering strong facial features including large dome-like eyes and outward-pointing ears. The figures are adorned with strands of blue…