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 figure from Nok. It depicts the upper body and head of a figure, the original terracotta having broken below this. The figure wears a circular, ribbed hat, decorated on top with circle designs. The brow is marked with lines of incised zigzags. An object appears to be slung over the left shoulder. [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: Depth: max 64 mm, Height: max 170 mm, Width: max 73 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2000.47.4 Other numbers: 47
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. 47 in Nok Terracottas, by Bernard Fagg (London: Ethnographica, 1977). See plate 47. [JC 3/11/2000]

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