Saul Williams - Human Mother and Bear Man Offspring
Saul Williams - Human Mother and Bear Man Offspring
Saul Williams discusses Human Mother and Bear Man Offspring, c. 1970.
Families relied on the land for food and water. The necessities of store-bought baby items were not available. A mother held many responsibilities in raising a child. Breastfeeding babies was the healthiest a mother could supply. There were days when a mother died and left her baby. In the case of my granny, she raised a boy. She could not breastfeed as she could not provide the breast milk so she used fish broth and poured it in the trout fish bladder to bottle feed the baby boy. Hence, babies acquired an attachment of a mother’s love. Similarly, a bear story was told when a mother bear heard an abandoned baby boy in the woods. The bear took him as his own and the baby survived. It is told that the bear taught the boy to walk in its upright posture and that is why we are able to walk today.