Maternity

This statue has a great resemblance between the face of the mother and the child, The bows of the eyebrows and the oval face form the drawing of a heart, frequent in some statues of Gabon and in many ethnic groups in the Congo and in Central African countries. The mother holds the child with her right arm while the child rests his small hand on the mother's breast. The mother's navel has a fairly important cavity, possibly to introduce some rest of the ancestor in the manner of a reliquary. The hairstyles are the same, two parts well separated. Patina of the time in which it contrasts in dark color of the body with the clarity of the faces. statue on a mono-blocked base. Aeitud fissure.