Sentence examples for maternity figure from inspiring English sources

Benign, but intriguing objects include a "maternity figure" composed of a series of energy-giving circles.

The first piece I bought was in 1971: a Senufo maternity figure, for three hundred dollars, from a gallery downtown".

Symonds hoisted a Dogon maternity figure, and Edwards said, "She's a queen with a prince and princess on her lap".

A heart-rending funerary object is a small, sensitively wrought maternity figure of wood from the Yombe in Angola, at once stylized and highly personal.

This maternity figure is just one fetish among nearly 100 exhibits from Benin and Togo currently showing at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the first time that the private collection of voodoo statuary belonging to the late Jacques Kerchache, a French explorer and collector, has gone on display.

Among the highlights are exquisite iron ritual staffs, personable hand puppets, grave carved-wood maternity figures and a whole herd of the infinitely stylish antelope-shaped crest masks known as Ci-wara.

All of these objects are considered to be infused with a kind of universal life force, and their joint authorship and maintenance suggest a rhythm of separation and cooperation between the sexes that is seen throughout Bamana art, most memorably in a sublime gathering of maternity figures further on in the show.

In total, 494 planned to give birth at a freestanding midwifery unit and 3157 planned to give birth at a tertiary-level maternity unit (figure 1).

Responding to Cambridge's maternity leave figures, a spokesman says: "We recognise that there are challenges for many staff when returning from maternity leave and have introduced various policies and initiatives to support the careers of academics".

This corresponds to an overall crude incidence of 137.3 per 100 000 maternities. Figure 1 shows that from 1994 to 2007 the crude incidence rate of pregnancy-associated cancer increased from 112.3 to 191.5 per 100 000 maternities (P < 0.001).

Of these, approximately 224 (64%) would start breastfeeding (local Maternity Database figures from 2007), and 133 (38%) will still be breastfeeding at 6 8 weeks.