Akua'ba Fertility figure

Akua'ba
Type: figure
Exhibits: Cycle of Life
Tribes: Akan peoples, Brong group
Location: Ghana
Period: 20th Century
Materials: Wood
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H: 
35.30cm
SKU: 
3037

This beautiful figure has number variation on the typical limbless torso, due to its miniaturized naturalistic feminine body with legs and frail hands, carrying a volumnar head with unique coiffure. Full-bodied figures such as this are believed to be recent twentieth-century innovation within the akua'ba sculptural tradition.

Akua'ba Fertility figure
Akua'ba Fertility figure
Akua'ba Fertility figure
Akua'ba Fertility figure