10 Facts About Nok culture

1.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,632
2.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,633
3.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,634
4.

Nok culture sculpture portrays two individuals, along with their goods, in a dugout canoe.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,635
5.

Nok culture traveled to Jos where Young showed Fagg other recently uncovered terracotta figures.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,636
6.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,637
7.

The numerous grinding stones found at Nok culture sites suggest that the grains were ground into flour and made into a type of porridge.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,638
8.

The only evidence for animals during the Nok culture period is the depictions of animals as figurines or terracotta sculptures.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,639
9.

Valuable information about the Nok Culture is lost when these objects are taken from out of the ground and removed from their archaeological contexts.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,640
10.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,046,641