Advent Calendar day 19 - Rwanda

This second African crib (on show in the exhibiton now open in Newcastle) is from Rwanda; I found it on sale in France for a charity,  in the year after the genocide. As in all the African cribs, the feeling that the artist has for the material -  ivory,  ebony, soapstone or wood -  contributes to the power of the piece. This is jacaranda wood.