NOK TERRACOTTAS, Nigeria

Tested and Untested

NOK 2 18" high $10,000*

NOK 4 13" high $8,000*

NOK 51 15" high $10,000*

NOK 23 10" high $4000*

NOK 24 9" high $5000*

NOK 25 8" high $5000*

NOK 26 11" high SOLD

NOK 27 12" high SOLD

NOK 29 7.75" high $4000*

NOK 22 7" high 4000*

NOK 55 9.5" high SOLD

NOK 54 8.55" high $3000

NOK 53 9.5" high SOLD

NOK 9 8" high $2500

NOK 12 6.5" high $2000

NOK 13 8.75" high SOLD

The oldest and most impressive group of terracottas in "Africa Unearthed" are the powerful and elegant heads and figures of the Nok. Little is known of the Nok civilization (ca. 500 B.C. - 200 A.D.) The artifacts were discovered in 1943 during mining near the village of Nok (hence the name), in Nigeria. Over the years we have acquired many Nok pieces, varying in size, quality and amount and type of repairs made.

Those marked with an asterisk have been tested by thermoluminescence at Bortolot Daybreak Corp. in Connecticut. The original papers have been lost (misplaced). We have been trying to get new originals from Bortolot with no success yet.  All results were "consistent with the suggested date of the object concerned." Katsina and Sokoto pieces, of which we have only a few, are from the same period, even more recently discovered, and also from Nigeria.