Figure mère et enfant · 

Ghana, Fante · ID: 3042194

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Description

wood, indigo blue and white pigment (“hyire”), black paint, seated on a stool, richly adorned (strings of glass beads, brass pendant), the child separately carved, with chevron bead around the neck, slightly dam., missing parts (horn tip), rest., abrasion of paint;
maternity figures protray the idea of fertility and continuity. The image of the nursing mother is ubiquitous throughout Akan society and figures are found in a number of different contexts including royal shrines or stool houses, in shrines dedicated to the river god “tano” and in anti-witchcraft shrines.

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Publications

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 154, ill. 207

AHDRC: 0054894

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