PUBERTY
(1955)

Original Dimensions:
40" x 7" x 6"

Original Materials:
King or Black Ebony

The sculpture is based on the Akan Proverb: "It is only fashionable for a young Akan girl with plumpy upright breasts to hold them when she is running, but not that they will fall down or drop." In other words, the breasts of a young Akan girl or woman symbolize life to the nation. She recreates and nourishes the young ones who are successors of the ancestors, the owners of the land. The breasts are therefore one of the greatest assets of the young Akan woman even as children are the greatest assets of a nation.

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