Sunday, December 17, 2006
































Akua'mma
woodcut - ink on paper
6.5" x 5.3" (16.5 x 13.5 cm)
font-family:arial;" >These are akua'mma (singular: akua'ba). Asante (or Ashanti) fertility dolls, from Ghana.

For an excellent article on the history of these dolls, go to Rand African Art, Akua's Child and Other Relatives, by Doran H. Ross.
This particular woodcut was done as practice. More for fun than anything else.