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This white akua ba, with the hairdo of a priestess, commemorates a child who was dedicated at birth to the cult of the deity believed to have helped its mother conceive. Following the child¹s birth such dolls may be placed on an altar as...
Wooden dolls (akua ba) are carried by Ashanti women as aids to conception and in the belief that the children they bear will carry the Ashanti marks of beauty exhibited by the dolls. The dolls are imbued with power through consecration to any one...
Wooden dolls (akua ba) are carried by Ashanti women as aids to conception and in the belief that the children they bear will carry the Ashanti marks of beauty exhibited by the dolls. The dolls are imbued with power through consecration to any one...
This figure of a seated mother with her nursing infant was probably intended for a family shrine (cf. CMS no. 204 ). The mother¹s stiff formal gesture seems to emphasize the symbolic nature of her act- the nurturing of the entire lineage. The...
Festival included: two art exhibitions (1) Drawing and the figure, 1400-1964 and (2) The President and the portrait: Presidents of the State University of Iowa from 1862-1964; Museum of Natural History exhibitions; lectures by Dr. Harlow Shapley,...
"The Eighteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa is proud to present the first major exhibition in this area of African sculpture in which a survey of the principle tribal styles is attempted. The exhibition has been...