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Female Twin Figure (Ibeji)

Yoruba, 1933

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Yorùbá

Female Twin Figure (Ibeji)

Yoruba, 1933

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.

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