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African ArtYoruba/Ibeji Standing Male Twin Figure, NigeriaWood, fine black-brown patina, encrusted with camwood powder and
Height: 11 3/4 inches, 30 cm
Strings of glass beads, standing on a circular base, the arms carved free of the body with the finger tips at the hips, an oval face with regular modelled features and lance-shaped scarification marks, crowned by a delicately grooved high tapering coiffure, incised tattoos on the body, OYO-style, presumably a work of the carver family "ibuke."
AA540
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