Seated Female Figure

Koma culture, Ghana, Sisili/Kulpawn River Basin, Northern Ghana, African

About 1250 - 1450

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Dark brown vessel has round body and curves inward at neck topped by flaring rim. Surface has overall matte texture from roulette; two narrow glossy bands define shoulder, which has glossy triangles and half-ovals.
Vessel, Matakam people, and Chad, African, fired clay and slip
Female figure
One of four staffs used to deliniate an area around a royal when he appears in public. Decorated with kneeling female figures with hands on breasts, alternated with knelling male drummers, at top birds and a python, below figures are quadrupeds, possibly goats, symbols of wealth.