Cast of a terracotta head from Nok. [JC 3/11/2000]

Collection type: Object
Description: Cast of a terracotta head from Nok. [JC 3/11/2000]
Long description: Cast of a terracotta head from Nok. It is hollow and depicts a male with a long face, with hair drawn up into a top-knot. Eyes and nostrils and ear holes have been bored but do not perforate through to the hollow centre. [JC [OPS Move] 16/6/2017]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Nok
Cultural groups: English
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source British Museum; PRM source William Buller Fagg; PRM source Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1965, uncertain Date made: Before 1967, uncertain
Date collected: By 2000
Acquisition information: Purchased: 27/05/1965, uncertain Purchased: 11/05/1967, uncertain Found unentered: 03/11/2000
Materials and processes: Material Clay, Process Cast
Dimensions: Length x Width: max 160 x 76 mm, Height: max 130 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2000.47.2 Other numbers: 93
Research and responses: One of sixteen casts of Nok terracottas purchased from the British Museum in two batches of eight (on 27 May 1965 and 11 May 1967); two of the sixteen were apparently never received (see unsigned and undated note in Related Documents file). [JC 3/11/2000]
This is a cast of the terracotta listed as no. 93 in Nok Terracottas, by Bernard Fagg (London: Ethnographica, 1977). See plates 93/94. [JC 3/11/2000]