Ethiopian Terra Cotta Head Fragment, Aksumite? shoe shaped I also love its simultaneous

I also love its simultaneous gracefulness  and awkwardness--a body built for gliding through the water

3 1/8" long x 1 1/8" wide x just shy of 1 1/2" tall

I'd like to think she was the carver's mother or grandmother

Graphite on natural colored construction-type paper

Ethiopian Terra Cotta Head Fragment, Aksumite? shoe shaped I also love its simultaneousI cannot authenticate the age or authenticity of this head, which I purchased just because I really like it, but I do know if came from Ethiopia, and it looks very much like ancient Aksumite heads, examples of which I've included in photos. (Aksum was an ancient Ethiopian kingdom that spanned what are now Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, much of eastern Sudan and southern eastern Yemen.) The interior of the neck is shows texture, as if molded over a wooden