African
Bangwa Anyi, Mother of Twins
(Bagwa Anyi Fertility museum reproduction dates back to the early 19th Century)
This touching figurine illustrates an African mother
nursing one of her twin babies. As a mother of twins, she is known as an Anyi to
the tribe and wears special attributes such as her hairstyle, her necklace made
of the teeth of a panther (which she has turned on her back) and her bracelets.
Her sitting pose and the decorated stool indicate she belongs to an important
family. When a woman gives birth to twins she is assigned an almost goddess-like
status. As an Anyi, she receives valuable necklaces with beads and two ritual
mugs.
Special wooden figurines are cut in her and her husbands honor (the Tanyi).
The Anyi dances at parties and funerals, and leads rituals to beg fertility from
the earth. By waving a branch of the tree of peace (the Dracaena or the Dragon's
blood tree) she can reconcile fighting parties.
The Bangwa tribe live in the grass African Savannah area in the northwest of
Cameroon. They are a small African tribe which is part of the larger ethnic
group of the Bamileke. The skillful Bangwa woodcutters are famous for their
horrifying masks depicting the "Brotherhood of the Night".
This statue is part of the African museum replicas by Mouseion 3D Collection and
is manufactured with the quality standards of European museum stores. It's a
quality art piece that brings alive the heritage of art from cultures around the
world.
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