Artist:Yombe
Medium: Wood, glass, upholstery studs, metal, metal and glass buttons, resin
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:19th century
Dimensions: 11 x 5 x 4 1/2 in. (27.9 x 12.7 x 11.4 cm)
Collections:
Museum Location: Special Exhibitions, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Exhibitions:
Accession Number: 22.1138
Image: 22.1138_threequarter_left_PS9.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Carved wooden mother and child. Mother, who is nursing child, is seated cross-legged, supporting child's head with right hand and legs with left hand. She has high, spade-like headdress, open protruding mouth revealing filed teeth, and glass eyes with black pupils. Ears are carved spatially and have pink bead earrings strung on wire through ear lobes. Over much of shoulders and back are scarification marks. Above breasts are a band and a necklace. Infant child, with mirror in center of abdomen, has hand on mother's stomach. Second mirror is attached with four nails to lower part of mother's back. There is a deep crack running down the figure of the mother from below her chin through the torso. Other cracks throughout figure and base. Often old crack repairs open up again and need to be refilled.