Akua'ba Fertility figure

Akua'ba
Type: figure
Exhibits: Cycle of Life
Tribes: Akan peoples, Fante group
Location: Ghana
Period: 20th Century
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H: 
41.50cm
SKU: 
3027

A variant representation of Fante Akua'ba figure. This fertility figure has powerful legs instead having legless truncated cylindrical torso. The representation of breasts and navel makes it clear that the figure is indeed a female, reflects the Akan system of matrilineal descent. (Cameron 1996:47-8).

Akua'ba Fertility figure
Akua'ba Fertility figure
Akua'ba Fertility figure
Akua'ba Fertility figure