Nok village finds

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Sculpture · c. 500 BC · Nok, Kaduna · Africa

A head found by tin miners in 1928 that gave the whole culture its name

Nok village finds — 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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