IGBO COUPLE 1, Nigeria

 

Photographs © Hamill Gallery

IGBO
COUPLE FIGURE 1
16.5" high
$500
SOLD

Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, figures like these were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies. Traditionally, most of the couples are two freestanding figures, conceived as a unit, and posed frontally, symmetrically, in formal postures and of equal size.

Despite its appearance and patina, this Igbo pair shows no evidence of age or use and was probably made to be sold.

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