Standing female figure with bowl ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3036778

Description

copper alloy, bronze, brass, carrying a child on the back, supporting a round flat bowl with flap lid in openwork design on the head, crowned by a rooster, patina, small traces of corrosion, minor missing parts in the cast, crack;
as a shrine sculpture, the mother and child with an offering bowl is well known throughout Yorubaland. The bowl could have been used as oil lamp.

Comparing literature

Beeh, Wolfgang (HG), Mitgebracht von fremden Völkern, Ausstellungskatalog Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 1990, ill. 54