2015-3-2A (Dolls, Ibeji)

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Two wooden standing male figures on round bases. Hands are resting on their hips with legs apart. The legs are rather short and arms elongated. Classic Yoruba vertical and horizontal scarification marks appear on both dolls with one face totally washed away from use. Glass beads appear around their neck and ankles. The complex coiffure is colored with blue indigo. Both figures are in good condidtion with erosion to one coiffure and split behind right shoulder of the other. Both figures date to the mid to late 20th century.

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