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Breastfeeding mother. Maximum card Ivory Coast 1976

Breastfeeding motherhood. Image of the mother. Wooden statue. On first day, Yvert 398.

Dimensions: 91 x 165 mm

SectionPhilately
MaterialPaper
ContinentAfrica
Year1976

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.