Ushafa / Earthen Archive
Plate I · Niger–Benue Confluence
A reading of fired clay

Fired in earth,
found in time.

Two thousand years beneath the soil, the eyes still hold their triangle — terracotta heads from the Nok valley, low-fired, weathered, and quietly waiting to be read.

A lecture on West Africa's oldest figurative sculpture Nok culture, c. 500 BC – 200 AD
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