Queen-Mother and Child Maternity Statue
This large female figure holding left breast in hand is seated on a detachable stool with a detachable baby figure laying over her legs. The figure is depicted with trade-beads around the neck, right arm, and left arm.
The Asante and Fante tribes are both of the Akan speaking communities, and they both also employ the use of Queen-Mother maternity sculptures in their ancestral shrines.
The maternity statue is called Esi-Mansa; normally such figures are kept in royal or commoner shrines where it emphasizes the importance of family and ancestral lineage traditions.
Provenance: The first known American collector was the renowned collector Lawrence P. Kolton and Rachel Angotti of Michigan City, Indiana, between the years of 1969 and 1979.
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Wood with black paint and white clay kaolin pigmentation, trade-beads
28 x 10 x 8 in
71 x 25 x 20 cm
Ashanti or Fante people;Region of Ghana, West Africa