A Bamana maternity statue - Do Kamissa - from the Diola region in Saro province, in kneeing position, the torso elongated with tapering, downturned breasts, holding a child in her hands, cylindrical long neck attached with a piece of cord, oval head with small protruding mouth and round narrow nose, leading to the stylized eyebrows, a headdress with Iroquoian form, and the three piugtails are showing the traditional hairdress of the Bamana woman, grey to brownish patina, touchpatina on face, breasts and the child are verifying the ritual use, heavy hard Lenke wood, also called "iron wood".

Youtube clip: Sacrifice of a Gwandusu, a Dokamissa and other Bamana Sculptures close to a village in the Saro region, about 150km from Segou, by Wolfgang Jaenicke .

The value of children in women´s lives is expressed in a song sung by newly exised Bamana women (Luneau 1974:539).

"The child you bear
The child you bear
Is an ornament
Even if you have placed gold
On the ears of your wife
A woman´s ornament is
The child she bears."

"If you are not afraid of females, Master
If you are not afraid of females,
You´re not afraid of anything"

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Height: 89 cm
Weight: 10,2 kg