UI Professor's Collection of 300 Yoruba Twin Figures Featured at IMU
August 11, 2010
August 11, 2010
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 11 -- Iowa Center for the Arts issued the following news release:
Yoruba people of West Africa have the highest rate of twin pregnancies in the world and in this culture, they perceive twins -- "ibeji" -- as spirited, unpredictable, fearless, and agents of good luck. In Yoruba culture, when a twin dies, the mother commissions the carving of a six- to eight-inch wooden figure--called an ere ibeji, or twin soul -- to embody the twin's spirit for . . .
Yoruba people of West Africa have the highest rate of twin pregnancies in the world and in this culture, they perceive twins -- "ibeji" -- as spirited, unpredictable, fearless, and agents of good luck. In Yoruba culture, when a twin dies, the mother commissions the carving of a six- to eight-inch wooden figure--called an ere ibeji, or twin soul -- to embody the twin's spirit for . . .