KSJK 0809-2

Koma Figure, Ghana

H: 15 cm (5,9″)

Teracotta Komaland figures like this have been dated to between approximately 500 and 1300 AD. Using computed tomography scanning techniques they may have had a medicinal function, used for liquid ritual offerings.

Provenance: From a famous old Danish collection.

Literature:
Anquandah, James and Laurent van Ham (1985) Discovering the forgotten “civilization” of Komaland, Northern Ghana. Rotterdam. [Review: see Ross, Doran H. 1987].

Bargna, Ivan (1991) La civiltà del Komaland. In: Dalla terra all’arte. Terracotte africane da collezioni comasche. Como, pp. 15-16 [photos: 45-55].

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