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Yoruba Ibeji triplets master sculptor.Abegunde of Ede tribal African Art Nigeriacirca 1930
circa 1930
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An extraordinary group of Ibeji "triplets" sculpted by the same master sculptor.
Ibeji is name of a very specific type of carved wooden figure from Yoruba in Nigeria.
Ibejis represent essentially late (twin or triplet) children, and are treated like actual children. They are carried around, bathed, powdered, given jewellery. Note the trade beads which adorn our figures' waistlines. One of the female figures is also wearing a bracelet.
An Ibeji figure was the first authentic tribal object I acquired back in 2002. It's only very recently that I understood why I feel so strongly about these figures: it is the fact that they have been very deeply cared for by their original owners.
The sculpture of an Ibeji - headdress, scarifications, shape of eyes - varies from region to region in Yorubaland, and allow the collector to situate the area, or even the town, where the artwork was carved. The three Ibejis presented here come from the town of Ede, where the master carver Abegunde who worked in a very distinctive style. Our figures can be attributed to him or his workshop. One of our triplets has a particularly prestigious provenance: it belonged to the American collector Sanford Griffith, an authority on African Art (even according to the New York Times!). The figure featured in an exhibition of African Tribal Art at the UN Building in New York in 1978. It was subsequently sold by New York tribal art dealer Mark Eglinton in 2005.
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