National Museum in Nigeria- Esie National Museum, Esie Kwara State

It has happened over 231 years ago where an hunter discover over 1000+ images under a palm tree in the process of hunting in a community called Esie in Kwara State.

This became one of our National Museum in 1775 and tis images are image of people who turn soapstone. the name of the hunter who discover these is Baragbon.

They are really the work of God. Efforts have been made by many people to put together the parts of some of the images that got broken. The whitemen also tried but it was impossible. I mean the hands, the legs and some other parts of the images broke off long ago, but nobody could fix them together. If they were carved by human beings, there is no way the materials used in carving them would not have been known, to make for easy putting together of the broken parts.