African sculpture
Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas. A notable exception is the Farmingdale Statue, a wooden figure attributed to the Zulu or another Nguni group of southeastern Africa, radiocarbon dated to approximately A.D. 1630 and described as one of fewer than a dozen wooden artefacts known to have been collected from sub-Saharan Africa before 1650.