Nok culture is a population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their terracotta sculptures were first discovered in 1928.
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Nok culture is a population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their terracotta sculptures were first discovered in 1928.
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That is why Nok culture art is well known today only for the heads, both male and female, whose hairstyles are particularly detailed and refined.
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Margaret Young-Sanchez, Associate Curator of Art of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania in The Cleveland Museum of Art, explains that most Nok culture ceramics were shaped by hand from coarse-grained clay and subtractively sculpted in a manner that suggests an influence from wood carving.
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Nok culture sculpture portrays two individuals, along with their goods, in a dugout canoe.
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Nok culture traveled to Jos where Young showed Fagg other recently uncovered terracotta figures.
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Akin to the peoples of the Chad Basin and Kintampo culture, the people of the Nok culture employed a mixed cropping method of cultivating cowpeas and pearl millet as well as utilized oleaginous fruits.
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The numerous grinding stones found at Nok culture sites suggest that the grains were ground into flour and made into a type of porridge.
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The only evidence for animals during the Nok culture period is the depictions of animals as figurines or terracotta sculptures.
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Valuable information about the Nok Culture is lost when these objects are taken from out of the ground and removed from their archaeological contexts.
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In February 2013, Daily Trust reported that the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation repossessed five Nok culture statuettes looted by a French thief in August 2010.
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