Yorùbá
Female Twin Figure (Ibeji)
Yoruba, 1933-1999
Scroll
Yorùbá
Female Twin Figure (Ibeji)
Yoruba, 1933-1999
Physical Qualities
Wood, copper alloy, pigment, 11 5/16 x 2 3/4 x 2 9/16 in. (28.7 x 7 x 6.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Vivian L.C. Anderson, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
2001.8
with four small hair buns at the top, eyelashes indicated all around the eyes, four horizontal scarification lines on each cheek, black pigment
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; Vivian L.C. Anderson, Bethesda, MD; collected by the donor in Nigeria c. 1970.
Thompson, Robert F., "Black gods and kings: Yoruba art at UCLA," Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976, c1971, ch. 3&13.
