Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. information artifacts
7. [information artifacts by function]
8. [declaratory and advertising artifacts]
9. signs (declatory or advertising artifacts)
10. [signs by function]
11. identification signs
12. shop signs

Anotations

Scope note:

The gaper or "yawner" is a typically Dutch shop sign in the form of a head carved in wood or stone. The head is almost always a sylized depiction of a Moorish man with his mouth open to receive medicine. These were displayed to indicate the location of a pharmacy.