Depicted in a highly abstract style, this standing female figure holds a stick with both hands, her helmetlike hairstyle accented by brass attachments. A diminutive figure is mounted on the woman’s back, framed by her jutting shoulders and buttocks. Although the relationship between the two suggests a mother carrying her child, the small figure appears to be fully grown. The sculpture may thus be understood as a celebration of women as the essential progenitors of society.
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