This Kamba figure depicts a mother, seated upright on a small three legged stool, who balances a suckling baby on her knees. The baby holds the mother's other breast, and a sidewards-facing child is shown strapped to the mother's back. All the figures have a shared characteristic - pairs of white eyes, which appear to be inserted bone.
What is interesting about this piece is how the carver has created the form of the sculpture, where there is far greater depth in the body than in the quite thin and narrow front profile.
Ex Private Collection, UK
Estimated Period: 1930's
Height: 26.5cm
Depth: 11.5cm
Width: 6cm
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