Two Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Igbomina, male twin figures

ibejis, each of similar form, standing with hips encircled by beads and one with a necklace, each with conical coiffures, the smaller of the two with more pronounced chin and openwork tip to the coiffure; '250' on the shorter and '168A-21' on the taller; heavily encrusted camwood surface.

Acquired from Stolper Galleries, Robert Stolper and Morton Lipkin, Amsterdam, April 12, 1967 (for the shorter one)