Heads outlast the hands that made them — by millennia.

Catalogued Fragments Surviving

1,247 pieces

across 147 sites in central Nigeria

+38% over 2020 census

Survival by Fragment Type

Heads

612

Figurine torsos

423

Limbs & extremities

148

Vessels & wares

Heads represent 49% of the surviving corpus — a ratio unmatched by any contemporaneous West-African figurative tradition.

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