Twin Figure (Ère Ìbejì)
c. 1930s
Overall: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.334.2
Among the Yoruba, who have the world's highest instance of multiple births, twins are regarded 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 enter...
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