Carved wooden statue of mother and child, mother sitting cross-legged suckling child on her knee, mitre shaped headdress, cicitrization marks on back etc., appealed to for safe upbringing of children, Loango tribe, maker, Central Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658226
- Materials:
- wood and eyes, glass
- Measurements:
-
overall: 290 mm x 95 mm x 108 mm, .64 kg
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
