Maternity

 The figure of motherhood is one of the oldest and most representative in Africa. She is represented with one or two children she is giving or has just breast-feeding. At other times, she carries her daughter behind her back, co in this case. They do not usually represent a particular woman, but a woman who dispenses life and food, since their primary function is to give life and preserve it.

Women are a symbol of social life as they are the essential link in the lineage, the backbone of the family and often an essential element in the transmission of inheritance and, always, the protective element of children. Breast milk is not only a food of life, it is the sap that carries out the transmission of fundamental human values. In many cultures, women are the depository of tradition and the safeguarding of genealogies. He is often, divine, healer and connoisseur of the mysteries of nature clothed with great magical powers. The African woman, and especially the mother, is far from the image of her in the West.

The scarifications of the shoulders indicate that it is a statuette belonging to the ethnic group Kongo Yombe. It carries memaras ventral and pectoral sracifications. Semi-open mouth showing the upper incisors.