Among Us

  • Human with a whisk

    Human with a whisk

    Name: Human with a whisk Location: National Museum Kaduna. Recovered: Big Paddock Tin Mine Text: Found some 36 feet deep in the Big Paddock, the largest of the tin mines at Nok. This figurine, broken just above the waist, has a well-preserved surface. Details of the face show a beard and moustache and the left…

  • Tumorous

    Tumorous

    Name: Head with tumorous growth and diseased eye Height: 14cm Location: National Museum Kaduna Recovered: Excavated 2007, Unguwar Kura 9 Text:

  • Braided Head

    Name: Braided head Location: National Museum Kaduna Height: 13cm Recovered: 2010, Kufai Kuku. Text:

  • Arm

    Name: Arm with an armband. Location: National Museum Kaduna Recovered: Excavation 2013, Pangwari E Text: Fragment of the arm of a Nok sculpture with an armband.

  • Ifana

    Ifana

    Name: Ifana Location: National Museum Kaduna Height: 30cm Recovered: 2011, Ifana. Text: A figure of a man with 3 snakes under each arm and one in each hand.

  • Torso

    Torso

    Name: Torso Location: National Museum Kaduna Recovered: (not stated) Text: The Well-preserved torso of a sculpture. It belonged to two features approximately two meters distant from one another. Found 20cm below this fragment, stone pavings with clay vessels were discovered.

  • Feet

    Feet

    Name: Feet with bangles Location: National Museum Kaduna Height: 16.75cm Recovered: 1928 Text: The size of this model of a human right foot and lower leg, hollow and wearing bangles, was the first object to suggest the probability of finding statuary of the period. Though little, if any of the original surface remains, the modelling…

  • Ifana I

    Ifana I

    Name: Ifana I Location: National Museum Kaduna Height: 43cm Recovered: 2011 Text: Male Cylindrical Sculpture with horned headdress and wing-like appendages.

  • Head with hat

    Name: Male head figure with a hat. Location: National Museum Kaduna Height: 23cm Recovered: Found near Ungwan Kura Text: Nok sculpture of a human Male head figure with a hat.

  • Vessel

    Vessel

    Name: Vessel with Incised Nok style face  Location: National Museum Kaduna Height: 17cm Recovered: Excavation 2006, Janruwa A. Text: