A female Akan | Ashanti sculpture, Ghana, standing on a wooden base, rounded legs protruding stomach, protruding breasts, arms in a share position coming down to the hips, a long ringed neck carrying a rounded head with pronounced features, a small open mouth, long thin nose, almond shaped nose, the hair is pulled back in braids, her cheeks are marked by an X and a minus; some cracks, signs of use, glossy by use.

"The Asante use the same dye to stamp distinctive black patterns on their adinkra cloth. The fact that conservation analysis of the sculpture’s pigment showed traces of iron oxide would seem to suggest that the artist perhaps used badyie not only to appeal to Asante aesthetic sensibilities but also to underscore’s the figure’s profound religious purpose."

Source: Nii O. Quarcoopome, Co-Chief Curator and Curator of African Art, Akan Wood Sculpture, Bulletin of Detroit Institute of the Arts, Volume 91.

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Height: 47 cm
Weight: 1,3 kg