How was she made?

This is a terracotta figurine made of hard reddish clay with white, brown, and black inclusions of different dimensions. 

Different techniques were used to produce figurines, depending on the workshop, the artisans’ expertise, and their stylistic choices. Artisans often combined multiple techniques. While this female tambourine player has a moulded face and a solid hand-made body, figurines were commonly crafted in several ways: entirely handmade without using a mould, fully moulded, or with a hollow, wheel-made body.
Coils, i.e. long rolls of clay, were sometimes used to attach the body to the face or to join separately shaped body parts, such as arms or objects held by the figure. Additionally, a variety of tools were employed to refine the figurine and to enhance details like pendants, hairstyles, or dress decorations.
Besides shape and style, the production technique serves as a key marker for identifying the workshop. During the Archaic period, at least 13 different workshops were active in Cyprus. However, due to the poor preservation state of this figurine, it is not possible to determine in which workshop it was produced. 
Painting of different colours was used for the details of the figurines. Once again, our 3D figurine retains no traces of painting, but by observing other specimens we can admire different colours and shades (fig. 1).

Fig. 1 - Female figurine
(Cyprus Museum, B190 - permission from DoA)