Pair of Twin Figures (Ère Ìbejì)

c. 1930s Each: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.334

Yorùbá people, who have the world's highest number of multiple births, regard twins as sacred children. Should one die, the parents may commission a memorial figure. They then care for the figure (decorate, clothe, wash, and feed it), symbolically honoring and entertaining the...

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