An Akan terracotta head, with open mouth, a sortened, flat nose, framed by coffee bean eyes with a domed, decorated forehead; this head was could be a part of a sculpture.. Unfortunately, no precise thermoluminescent dating is available for the present terracotta head. However, its style and external appearance definitely indicate its ‘old’ age (18th/19th) 

s. Michelle Gilbert, Akan Terracotta heads,gods or Ancestors, University of Californis

Lit.: ‘Erde und Erz’ by K.-F. Schädler, ill. 303, 305, 308, 321, 340, 344; ‘Die Kunst des schwarzen Afrika’ by Kerchache, Paudrat, Stephan, ill. 71–73.