Koma Terra Cotta Funerary Figure

Bug eyes and a mouth full of tiny stripes, all on a long, thin cone.

This Koma terra cotta funerary figure is Koma, from Northern Ghana, West Africa. Hand-modeled from fired clay, Koma figures often show stylized faces, bodies and ornaments, and their surfaces record the pinching, coiling and incising used by the potters. Slender and tapering to a rounded point, with a squared, hollow rim. Two raised, ringed eyes and a small nose sit above incised horizontal lines for the mouth. The finish is a mottled reddish brown. It is 1.6 inches wide, 1.6 deep and 4 high.

Looks like a carrot that took a very firm stance on things.