The #Nok Village in #Kaduna State #Nigeria launches visitors into
physical romance with the so-much-talked-about culture of the Nok
people. The cultures has been known for over 2,500 years. The Nok
culture is better appreciated appraising the excavations made by the
numerous scholars and research. Terra cotta, heads of animals and man; and weapons of war are abundant on display.
The earliest evidence for metalworking was discovered in the area of the
Jos plateau in central Nigeria. Near the modern village of Nok,
archaeologists found iron tools and weapons and the equipment used for
making them. Tests indicated that people living in this area were making
simple iron equipment as early as about 500 BC. These people, known
today as the Nok Culture, after the modern village where artefacts were
first discovered, used small and primitive blast furnaces to smelt iron
ore (remove the iron metal from the stoney ore). These were made of clay
and held the pieces of iron ore and charcoal. Once lit, vents in the
sides allowed air to be pumped into the furnace using bellows. This
raised the temperature high enough so that the iron metal was released
from the ore.
The Nok people were also fine sculptors and left
behind them many beautifully constructed sculptures in terracotta (baked
clay). These terracottas are usually in the form of a human head, often
wearing elaborate jewellery and hairstyles or headgear. It is thought
that the later, famous, bronzes of Ife and Benin grew out of the
magnificent tradition of sculpture in clay, brass and bronze developed
by the Nok people.
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