Mother with Twins

Maker Unknown, Yoruba, Ekiti

MediumWood

Dimensions19”

Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust

Object numberAF2002.2562.COP

DescriptionMother of twins seated on a stool nursing one baby, with a second baby on her back. The child on her back holds a highly simplified Shere Shango rattle and Shango thunder-stone (Edun Ara). Ekiti area. The woman has an elaborate hairdo and wears a necklace.

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Opening the Africa Collection

Gender and Society in Africa

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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