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 function]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by specific context
6. architectural elements
7. architectural elements by building type
8. religious building fixtures
9. altars and altar components
10. altars

Anotations

Scope note:

Bamana zoomorphic sculptures, which serve as portable altars for the Komo association, and which are usually shaped in the form of a cow, with the insides containing materials such as animal bones, vegetable matter, honey, metal, and covered with a thick coating of earth.