NOK ART
The Oldest Traditional Nigerian Art Dated back to between 500 BC.to 200 AD.The Nok culture is an early Iron Age populace whose material remains are named after the Ham town of Nok in Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their popular earthenware models were first found in 1928. The Nok Culture showed up in northern Nigeria around 1500 BC [1] and vanished under obscure conditions around 500 AD, in this way having endured roughly 2,000 years.[2]
Press use, in purifying and producing for devices, shows up in Nok culture by no less than 550 BC and perhaps prior. Information from chronicled phonetics propose that iron purifying was freely found in the area before 1000 BC.[3][4] Scientific field work started in 2005 to deliberately explore Nok archeological destinations, and to all the more likely comprehend Nok earthenware designs inside their Iron Age archeological setting
Discovery
Fifteen years later, in 1943 near the village of Nok, in the center of Nigeria, a new series of clay figurines were discovered by accident while mining tin. A clerk in charge of the mine had found a head and had taken it back to his home for use as a scarecrow, a role that it filled (successfully) for a year in a yam field. This scarecrow was eventually noticed by Bernard Fagg who at the time was an administrative officer who had studied archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Fagg noticed that the head on the scarecrow looked similar to the sculpture that Young had found. He traveled to Jos where Young showed Fagg other recently uncovered terracotta figures. Eventually it became clear that the tin mining in Nok and Jema'a areas were revealing and destroying archaeological material.[9]
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