Ere ibeji figure

Museum number:

5-4052c

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Alternate number:

1983C (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.1950

Object count:

1

Description:

Four figurines showing steps in carving Yoruba twin figures (ibeji); (A) roughed-out female figure; (B) female figure about half finished; (C) completed female figure; (D) completed male figure.

Donor:

William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Nigeria

Verbatim coll. place:

Africa; Southern Nigerians; Yoruba cluster; Yoruba

Culture or time period:

Yoruba

Collector:

William Russell Bascom

Collection date:

1937-1938

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carvings (visual works) and Ere ibeji

Function:

8.3 For Manufacturing

Accession date:

1964

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

height 27 centimeters

Comment:

Collected at Efon-Alaiye, Nigeria. Carved by the carver of the King or Oni of Ife; identified by William Fagg as "Owo-eye", one of his master carvers.

Loans:

S1964-1965 #89: California State University, Chico (April 21, 1965–August 6, 1965) and S1965-1966 #9: California State University, East Bay (August 10, 1965–October 10, 1965)

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