Early African heads
When1: 1200
What: sculptor
Where: Ife, Nigeria
works\ Early African portrait heads [1200]
Detail: Early Africans shaped terracotta portrait heads. Artists worked wax into face, covered wax with earth, heated to bake earth and melt wax in the ciré-perdue process (lost-wax process), and then poured bronze into mold.
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