Standing female figure

Description

wood, black patina, kaolin, abundantly adorned with strings of polychrome miniature glass beads, high towering coiffure with lobes arranged in vertical rows, both hands resting on the bulging abdomen of a pregnant woman, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
like all the other peoples living in the east of the Ivory Coast, the Abron belong to the ethnic group of the Akan. In woodcarvings the geographical locations of the Baule in the west and the Akan/Ashanti in the east can easily be seen.