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Esquema

Getty AAT: Objects Facet

Jerarquía

Visual and Verbal Communication (Hierarchy Name) > Visual Works (Hierarchy Name) > visual works > <visual works by material or technique> > sculpture (visual work) > <sculpture by subject type> > statues > figurines

Descripción

Sculpted human figures or heads attached to the reliquaries of deceased Fang elders, which function as a symbolic evocation of the ancestor as well as a guardian of the relics.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300262978

Otros términos

  • byeri [en]
  • eyema [en]
  • nlo byeri [en]