Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. sculpture (visual works)
8. [sculpture by subject type]
9. statues

Anotations

Scope note:

Highly stylized anthropomorphic carved sculptures constructed from flat boards and decorated with red, black, and white paint. These figures were used to display trophy skulls within the men's ceremonial houses, on the south coast of New Guinea. The sculptures are depictions of important ancestors or founders of a clan.