Yorùbá
Female Twin Figure (Ibeji)
Yoruba, Oyo region, 1867
Physical Qualities
Wood, beads, iron, string, pigment, 10 11/16 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (27.2 x 6.7 x 6.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Vivian L.C. Anderson, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
2001.6.1
with tall conical coiffure, face rubbed smooth, ochre substance rubbed in all crevices, red, white, green and gray beads around the neck, and black beads around waist, African glass beads, ochre encrustation, black pigment
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; Vivian L.C. Anderson, Bethesda, MD; collected by the donor in Nigeria c. 1970.
