

African art has many representations of mothers to children. These statues put motherhood in the spotlight. Here a woman is sitting and carrying the newborn baby on her knees in the hollow of her hands.
In traditional Luba art, women occupy an even more central place, which is why we find even more motherhood than in other artistic corpus.
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African art has many representations of mothers to children. These statues put motherhood in the spotlight. Here a woman is sitting and carrying the newborn baby on her knees in the hollow of her hands.
In traditional Luba art, women occupy an even more central place, which is why we find even more motherhood than in other artistic corpus.