Koma Terra Cotta Funerary Figure

Pale, slender and tube-shaped, with a hollow top and a beaded collar.

This Koma terra cotta funerary figure is Koma, from Northern Ghana, West Africa. The Koma people of northern Ghana are known for terra cotta figures, and scholars continue to discuss how the works were originally made and used. Straight, cylindrical shaft in a soft peach-tan tone, open at the top. A ridge of small raised beads or dots crosses the shoulder in an X, and the smooth lower body is blank. Faint chips mark the surface. It is 5.75 inches high and 1.5 in diameter.

Strong silent type, and strongly interested in being a tube.