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Figure | Eyema byeri
1880 - 1898
About the object
Eyema Byeri are figures made from wood and were part of the byeri reliquary shrine of the Fang people living in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon. They served as guardians to protect the human remains of the ancestors. The eyema byeri figures were fixed on top of or aside the cylindrical reliquaries made of tree bark by means of a wooden thorn on the underside of the figure, which is well preserved in this object.