Koma Terra Cotta Funerary Figure

Lying on its side like a snoozing anteater with a collar of tiny teeth.

This Koma terra cotta funerary figure is Koma, from Northern Ghana, West Africa. Terra cotta is simply fired earthenware, and in West Africa it has been shaped into figures and vessels for well over a thousand years. Horn-like form, open and hollow at the wide end, with a row of small, beaded bumps curving around the rim. The body tapers to a rounded snout. The brown surface is pitted and sandy, and chipped along the edges. It is 1.7 inches wide, 1 deep and 2.8 high.

Hard to say which end is the face, and it isn't telling.