YORUBA IBEJI ORISHA AND PRACTICE
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| Yoruba Ere Ibeji from Metropolitan Museum of Art | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji* |
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| Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yoruba Lady Ibeji with Baby Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Mother from Republic of Benin with Ere Ibeji tied in her Lapa | Yoruba Ere Ibeji |
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| Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji |
 Yoruba Ere Ibeji With Beaded Jackets |  | |
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| Youra Epa Mask with Ere Ibeji Mothers and Children |
 |  Yoruba Mother from Republic of Benin feeding Ere Ibeji Millet Gruel |  |
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| Yoruba Ere Ibeji | Yoruba Ere Ibeji | |
YORUBA IBEJI ORISHA AND PRACTICE
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Yoruba sculptures, with few exceptions are from Nigeria. Yoruba carving for the Oba of Republic of Dahome (renamed Benin Republic) was a center for Yoruba woodcarving until mid late 1950’s. Togo and Ghana produced Yoruba woodcarvings as well, but extremely limited in practice. I have seen evidence of Ere Ibeji carving from Ghana. I had a student that had a carving from there. The style was different from the ones carved in Nigeria, but there was enough of the Yoruba characteristics to distinguish an Ere Ibeji from the rest of Ghanaian culture manifestations.
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