| Mother and child images in Africa |
| "FANTEE WOMAN." FANTE PEOPLES, GHANA. MORE THAN ANY OTHER HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRODUCT DEPICTING NON-WESTERN PEOPLES AND PLACES, THE POSTCARD REFLECTS AND ENFORCES THE PREOCCUPATIONS OF ITS CREATORS AND VIEWERS. ALTHOUGH THIS POSTCARD SEEMS INNOCENT AND LESS STEREOTYPICAL THAN OTHERS, THE POSE OF THE WOMAN AND THE MONOCHROME BACKDROP ARE REMINISCENT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF PHYSICAL TYPES. IT THUS BELONGS TO THE GENRE OF TAXONOMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPH: W. S. JOHNSTON, CA 1900. "SANBRIDGE" POSTCARD COLLECTION, ELIOT ELISOFON ARCHIVES, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C. |
| Yoruba mother with the memorial figures of her deceased child |
| From the book: Ibeji - The Cult of Yoruba Twins Yoruba mother holding her twins Town of Share, North Oyo Photgraph by Deborah Stokes (1980) |
| From the book: Ibeji - The Cult of Yoruba Twins Yoruba mother with the memorial figures of her deceased twins Selia Alaka, town of Ikoyi, Ogbomoso. Photgraph by Deborah Stokes (1980) |
| Mother and child Bamun Kingdom, Cameroon Princess Ngutane cradles her firstborn son, Amidou Mounde, who was born in 1915 Photograph - Horniman Museum London |
| Noimoto, a Yoruba woman, is using a plastic doll as an ere Ibeji Photographed by Marilyn Houlberg, Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, 1970 |
| A Fante mother carrying her child in a wrapper on her back. Photograph by Doran H. Ross Legu, Ghana, 1976 |
| Mother (with similar raised hairstyle) and child. Photo: A. M. Duggan-Cronin From the book: Hairstyles and Headdresses |
| mother and child Guguletu Township, South Africa, 2000 http://www.onthepage.org/outsiders/mother_and_child.htm |
| Photographer: Alastair McNaughton - Australia Photographer Notes: A young Himba woman from Northern Namibia, Africa nurtures a small child. http://www.desertimages.com.au/art-prints/africa/mother-child.html |
| Mother and child - Ghana http://www.bigfoto.com/africa/ghana/ghana-mother-child-nh3.jpg |
| Young mother with child in Paarl, South Africa http://www.holmbergphoto.com/southafrica.html |
| Young Masai mother and child http://www.mastersimage.com/africa/africa.htm |
| Mursi mother and child http://www.phillipmartin.info/webpage/travel/africa/text_ethiopia_omomursi.htm |
| Muris tribe, Omo River region, Ethiopia http://www.jmiglavs.com/myth/pages/mursi.htm |
| Additional images coming soon... |
| Rand African Art home page African maternity figures main page |
| SOUTH AFRICA. Basutoland. Basuto mother and child from the highlands. 1947. View all of the wonderful photos from George Rodger |