Ewe Venavi Twin Figure, Benin #947 Citrine earrings and headdresses serve as

earrings and headdresses serve as a way of accumulating family wealth and often make up the largest share of a woman's dowry

Hiver 1988

elaborated through proverbs

Retablo dimensions: Framed are approx

Ewe Venavi Twin Figure, Benin #947 Citrine earrings and headdresses serve asEwe Venavi Twin Figure, Benin #947 Interesting piece whose style recalls the primitivist sculptures of Gauguin. The Ewe live on a coastal zone extending from Ghana Togo and Benin to the borders of Nigeria. They practice a Worship of Twins very similar to that of the Yoruba, and it is in this framework that these statuettes are produced of which the very varied styles are sometimes depending on local influences (Akhan on the Ghana side, Yoruba on the