To: Fred Nerks
>The variety, inventiveness, and beauty of their design is a beguiling record of cultivated devotion to body ornamentation. But as captivating as these embellishments are, the range of expression in Nok terracottas is far from limited to depictions of idealized health and beauty
Your pic's captioned a
"Seated Dignitary" but
his naughty bits show.
Has any culture
had a ruling that showed,
routinely, their junk?
That pic looks to me
like a statue of a guy
doing number two.
To: theFIRMbss
In spite of the “junk,” from an aesthetic perspective, I think there is a certain elegance and modernity about the lines of that statute.
30 posted on
08/23/2009 9:04:00 AM PDT by
marsh2
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