The Ashanti or Asante, like other ethnic groups in Africa, often depict motherhood in art in the form of large-breasted nursing women, whether in carved wood, lost-wax bronze, ivory, stone or terracotta.
The Ashanti are a Melano-African ethnic group of the Akan ethnic-linguistic group, settled in the Ashanti region, with the capital at Kumasi. They have been involved in the gold and slave trade since the 16th century, were colonised by the British in the late 19th century and have been part of Ghana since independence in 1957, making up a third of its population (7 million people).

The theme of motherhood is universal and recurrent in art throughout black Africa. African maternity statues do not usually express the emotional bonds between mother and child, as they symbolise the fertility of women and the earth, belong to the domain of the sacred and are often displayed on an altar. The mothers are in a hieratic position, very well sculpted, while the child, often a small adult, is barely sketched, especially the body, and there are almost never any glances between mother and child.

In many African ethnicities, the left side of the body is associated with the sacred: in most black African maternity wards, the child is positioned to the left of the mother or suckling from the left breast.
Regalo de Christian Vivas, traído de Costa de Marfil.