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Kneeling Mother Figure with Child

Maker Unknown, Yoruba

MediumWood

Dimensions17”

Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust

Object numberAF2002.2556.COP

DescriptionKneeling mother figure, carrying a child on her back in a baby wrapper, and holding the representation of a cloth around her neck and shoulders. He hair is elaborate with a central crest, and she has scarification marks on her cheeks including four long horizontal marks at the corners of the mouth and four short vertical lines above them. She is kneeling on a circular base.

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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