Maternity ·  D. R. Congo, Chokwe · ID: 3036950

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, stocky body with thin limbs, carrying a child on the left hip, bonnet-shaped coiffure with headcrest, handwritten collection number backside “L.C.30” and “A-200”, slightly dam. (nose, right breast), missing parts through insect caused damage (back, coiffure, headcrest), right foot and one half of the base missing, rep. (breakage/right elbow/forearm), base;
mother-and-child figures are reletively rare in Chokwe art. They express the essential role of women as the providers of life who thereby ensure the community’s continuity and prosperity.

Comparing literature

Jordán, Manuel (ed.), Chokwe!, München, London, New York 1998, ill. 108