Description:

**Originally Listed At $350**

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure, known as an Ibeji, representing a deceased male twin. The figure has stocky, delineated legs with a strand of trade bead wrapped around one ankle, wide hips, a broad torso, and plateaued shoulders. A thick neck supports a cylindrical head with incised almond-shaped eyes and drilled pupils, a flat, triangular nose, full lips, and several ritual scarification marks across its cheeks. The head is unusually large and boasts a tall, helmet-style headdress, perhaps a stylized depiction of a British helmet during the colonial era of Nigeria from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Size: 2.875" W x 10.425" H (7.3 cm x 26.5 cm).

Provenance: ex-collection of the late Peter Arnovick, San Francisco, California, USA

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  • Condition: Surface wear and minor abrasions commensurate with age, and fading to some finer incised features, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits and lustrous brown patina throughout. Old inventory labels underneath base.

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