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Nursing mother. Stamp Ivory Coast 1979
Wooden statue of a nursing mother. Philexafrique Michel 600-601, Yvert 495-96 (495)
Dimensions: 78 x 41 mm
In Côte d'Ivoire, the Ashanti, as in the rest of Africa and other ethnic groups (Bambara-Bamana (Mali, Senegal), Bamileke, Dogon, Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin), etc.), often depict motherhood in art in the form of women with large breasts suckling, either in carved wood or in lost-wax bronze.
Tooth 13.
In Côte d'Ivoire, the Ashanti, as in the rest of Africa and other ethnic groups (Bambara-Bamana (Mali, Senegal), Bamileke, Dogon, Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin), etc.), often depict motherhood in art in the form of women with large breasts suckling, either in carved wood or in lost-wax bronze.
Tooth 13.