Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
One of the earliest African centers of ironworking and terracotta figure production, the Nok culture remains an enigma. Most Nok sculpture is hollow and coil-built like pottery.
Nok Art Was Early Sculptural Pottery in West Africa - ThoughtCo
Jan 25, 2020 · Nok art is the earliest known sculptural terracotta art in West Africa, found throughout Nigeria and made between 500 BC and 500 AD.
Nok culture - Wikipedia
Excluding ancient Egyptian figurative art, Nok sculptures are regarded to be the most early, large figurative art in continental Africa. [9]
Nok Art - Art635 Virtual Museum
Mar 30, 2018 · The Nok terracottas are regarded as one of the most ancient African artworks, dating back to a civilization that existed between 500BC – 200AD. They acquired their name from the small village, in present-day Kaduna State, where the first sculpture was discovered in …
History of the Nok Culture | Terracotta Heads | Naijabiography
5 days ago · The Nok culture, which is also referred to as the Nok figurine culture, is said to be an Iron Age culture that existed on the Benue Plateau of Nigeria. History has it that clay figurines of animals and stylized humans, mainly heads, are the most distinctive Nok artefacts; the style is characterized by perforated eyes that have an elliptical or ...
Nok Terracotta Sculptures - World History Commons
2 days ago · Nok terracotta sculptures are the earliest-known sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa, created by the Nok culture of which little is known except their ironworking and terracotta sculptures that flourished circa 1500 BCE to 1 BCE.
Nok Sculptures – Collections, Conservation, and Collaboration: A ...
Nearly all of the Nok sculptures are hollow, most with walls less than a centimeter thick, with only a few of the smallest figurines being solid. The matrix of clay itself tends to be heavy in mica, granite, or large grains of quartz, which lends itself to a quick and easy firing process.
Nigeria - Vanishing African Art
Nigeria can justifiably be called the cradle of African Art. Terracotta artefacts from the Nok culture date back more than 3000 years, the kingdom of Ife is famous for its sophisticated bronze and clay figures from around 1200AD.
According to some accounts, based on artistic similarities to both early Yoruba art forms and Nok forms, there may be connections between them and the contemporary Yoruba people. Later brass and terracotta sculptures of the Ife and Benin cultures show significant similarities with those found at Nok. Nok sculptures also depict animals and humans.
The terracotta sculptures found in the Nok culture region are the oldest large-scale sculptures in West Africa and the tradition to produce them is confirmed to date back to the