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Ancient Art from Africa - Benin & Ife
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Royal Pair
Benin/ Ife, Nigeria
about 1900
45 cm

 




Royal Pair:


At 100 years old, this is the smallest of the three royal pairs and also the youngest. Stylistically, it differs only slightly from the other three. The woman, for example, holds no item in her hand, and the man's indistinctly-rendered tool suggests that the meaning and importance of such symbols disappeared little by little over time. Like the previous female figure, this one, too, points downwards with her index finger.



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Illustration:

Ita Yemoo
 

Frank WILLETT: Ife. Metropole afrikanischer Kunst, Bergisch Gladbach 1967, S. 41/ 75.