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A Classic Mama Kwarra Figure
The Mama of Nigeria’s culturally rich Benue Valley are best known for their abstractly rendered buffalo masks, but they also carve wooden, and sometimes clay-fired, figures. This Mama Kwarra figure bears some of the features intrinsic to Mama figures: bulbous heads, inflated torsos and bulky arms posed like rugby players preparing to join the scrum. The strong stance signifies the figure’s protection and healing powers.
20″
