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Originally these statues are said to have represented the Moon Goddess, Nyame. According to legend, a woman named Akua became pregnant and had a beautiful daughter by carrying this figure. Until recently, many Akan women carried the figure to induce fertility - it was placed like a child on the woman’s back. In the past 50 years the figures have been naturalized. The early examples, of which this is one, have no legs, a conical torso and rudimentary arms. There is a female form of Akua’Ba (disc-shaped head) and a male form (rectangular head), but both have the same generalized function of promoting the birth of a perfect child - regardless of sex.