Jemaa Head

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Sculpture · c. 500 BC · Jema'a, Kaduna · Africa

Near life-size; in 1943 Bernard Fagg used it to define the Nok style

Jemaa Head — Nicotta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Style: Nok terracottas — Clay heads and figures with triangular eyes — the oldest large sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa
Century: 6th century BC

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