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Yoruba twins, the highest twinning rate in the world, the ere ibeji figure carved when a twin dies, and the reversal from infanticide to veneration.

The carved figures made when a Yoruba twin dies, what the family does with them, the genuinely exceptional twinning rate that produced them, and how tens of thousands of them ended up in Western collections.

The cosmology, ritual care, material culture, and diaspora evolution of the Yoruba divine twins who share a single soul.