Nok Figures Are Usually Made of
Furthermore I question the technological skill required to make these pieces and the. The Nok Sculptures of Nigeria These unique terra-cotta figures date back 2500 years. Nok Culture Detailed Information Photos Videos The most characteristic Nok artifacts are clay figurines of animals and stylized human beings usually heads. . Is the Nok Bas sculpture a relief or mold. The terracotta statues found there are hidden rolled polished and broken. Nok terracotta has gripped the imagination from the earliest discovery of clay fragments by Bernard Fagg in 1928 to the current discourse surrounding them in 2016. Rulers priests or other high-ranking people. Most of the Nok statues are hollow and coil-built just like pottery. The village of Nok seems to have been one of the earliest African centres of terracotta figure production. In this article I provide an overview of these sculptures discuss their stylistic charac...
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