Word: nok
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salisbury show is the most comprehensive collection of African art ever assembled. It ranges from the terra-cotta pieces of the Nok culture. 2,000 years ago. through the supremely realistic Ife portrait heads of the 8th to the 14th century, to the Benin empire bronzes that mark the turning point from realism to expressionism between the 15th and the 19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been...