Mother-and-Child Figure
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Mother-and-Child Figure (late 1800s–early 1900s). Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.426

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Wearing an elaborate lobed headdress and a beaded waistbelt, and having filed teeth and red-powdered skin, this maternity figure seems to have once carried an ax and a cup, wooden imitations of the two most important chiefly attributes. Perhaps together with a male counterpart, it was secretly kept inside the ritual house, serving as a guardian of the chief’s treasure. Its style places it in the westernmost corner of Pendeland, between the Lutshima and Kwilu rivers.

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A dark-brown wooden sculpture depicts a kneeling woman cradling a small child.

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