Koma Female Funerary Figure

Seated, bead-necked and tall-hatted, resting spread fingers on its knees.

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. Upright seated body in warm grey-brown, with a banded, flat-topped head and a bead-like necklace across the chest. Rows of fine marks cover the belly, and large, scored hands rest on bent knees above short, blunt feet. It is 3 inches wide, 3.5 deep and 7.5 high.

Properly dressed and posed, ready for any and all visitors.