Koma Female Funerary Figure

Pointed cap, long neck and a skirt shaped like a bell.

This Koma terra cotta female funerary figure is Koma, from Northern Ghana, West Africa. Fired clay figures are built up by hand, with the surface smoothed, incised or burnished before the firing sets the form permanently. Slender, cone-like body with a pointed, helmet-like head and a long, smooth neck. A chevron-shaped band of incised ridges runs across the chest, and the broad, plain base spreads gently. The surface is a matte brown with a slight scuff. It is 4 inches wide, 3.75 deep and 7.25 high.

Tall for its size and very sure of its silhouette.