FA 210: Art of the World
Monday, January 24, 2011
Nok Heads
Nok Terracottas
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Also -- a lot of Nok artifacts have ended up in Western museums and personal collections, but the business of selling Nok artifacts to collectors is really controversial. Here are a couple links that show what I mean.
The Rape of Nok and Kwatakwashi: the crisis in Nigerian Antiquities
(University of Cambridge)
UNESCO, Nok terracotta and the Met
(Elginism blog)
Nok Heads for Sale
(Hamill Gallery)
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