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Outstanding African Nigeria Yoruba Ibeji Figure

 

Inches:                    Height: 11.5 Inches
Centimeters:          Height: 29 Centimeters        
                                Measurement Sculpture Only
Material:                Wood, Pigment, Cloth, Shells
Estimated Age:      Early 20th Century
Condition:              Fair - Good
Remarks:               Stylized doll fertility symbol traditional Yoruba features aged surface

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  CONDITION
Wood deterioration, lost of pigment, chips and scrapes, age cracks, worn areas, overall condition fair to good.  Thank you and please view my other items.

BACKGROUND
 The Yoruba people are concentrated in large urban centers. They live in southwestern Nigeria and south of Benin. Yoruba art varies remarkably according to area and the individual carver. The Ibeji statuette is a minor art form. The incidence of twin births is extraordinarily high among the Yoruba people, but so is infant mortality. If it happens, a carver must be called to make a small image, Ere Ibeji, of the dead twin of the same sex. Thus the Ibeji are Yoruba memorials to twins who have died. Twins are believed to be the children of Shango, the god of thunder and lightning. They are also thought to possess supernatural powers and share the same soul. The mother treats the image as though it were a living child, feeding it by smearing egg on its lips, washing its face, and making clothes to it.


Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it.  Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection.  It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting.  The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess.  The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.


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