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The Nok Culture

The Nok Culture

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This publication is the first comprehensive overview of Nok terra cotta sculptures, discovered in an area of modern day Nigeria known as the cradle of Africa's monumental sculpture. Excavations over the last fifteen years have uncovered many hundred terra cotta and fragments which were central to rites performed in the Nok civilisation 2,500 years ago: the oldest known figurative sculptures south of the Sahara.

Nok art confronts us with figures with figures of beauty and nobility. These include exclusively modelled princes, represented in parade dress, or figures that display artfully tied beards with plaited locks. Multiple armbands, neck ornaments, and cords demonstrate highest artistic skills. Centuries of intensive artistic practice may well have preceded the flowering of this incomparable culture.

About one hundred authenticated Nok figures, the majority published here for the first time, are included in this lavishly illustrated publication, accompanied by two essays that take a closer look at the mysteries of this enigmatic culture.

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