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Nok culture may have emerged in 1500 BCE and continued to persist until 1 BCE. [3] Nok people may have developed terracotta sculptures, through large-scale economic production, [5] as part of a complex funerary culture [6] that may have included practices such as feasting. [3] The earliest Nok terracotta sculptures may have developed in 900 BCE ...
Nok terracotta figurine of a man on horseback Taruga is just one of the sites in central Nigeria where artifacts from the Nok culture have been excavated. Since 1945, similar figurines and pottery have been found in many other locations in the area, often uncovered accidentally by modern tin miners, and dating from before 500 BC to 200 AD. [ 3 ]
The piece, inspired by the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” became a symbol of pride and resilience. Similarly, Jacob Lawrence's "The Migration Series" documented the Great Migration, telling the story of millions of African Americans who moved from the rural South to urban centers in the North in search of better opportunities.
The krone (Norwegian: [ˈkrûːnə], abbreviation: kr (also NKr for distinction); code: NOK), plural kroner, is the currency of the Kingdom of Norway (including overseas territories and dependencies). It was traditionally known as the Norwegian crown in English; however, this has fallen out of common usage.
Salendine Nook Secondary School opened in September 1956 for 600. [3] Huddersfield New College was built to the west of the site, and Huddersfield High School, a girls grammar school, was built to the east. It was part of a campus. Work started in December 1955 by James Miller and partners of Edinburgh, costing around £233,000
Nok Tha. The name Loeng Nok Tha consists of two parts: . Loeng, Isan for a 'low-lying swampy basin'. Nok Tha (painted), Isan for a species of bird similar to the guineafowl.. The area of Loeng Nok Tha is so called because there once were large numbers of nok tha living around the swamps of the region, but they have now disappeared almost entirely as a result of human habitation; not to be ...
An example of the Map of National Shame: the 1933 New National Map for Elementary School Use by the World Geographical Society. The Map of National Shame (simplified Chinese: 国耻地图; traditional Chinese: 國恥地圖; Japanese: 国恥地図) is a map created around 1930 by the Nationalist government of the Republic of China, depicting territories that China perceived to have lost control ...
On the other hand the Nok figures are more sophisticated than the Chinese ones, but have the same method of construction (coil built). It seems unlikely to me that Greek stonemasons would travel to the ends of the earth to teach people how to make terracotta figures. Is there any evidence that the Nok and the Chinese were in contact with each ...