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
13. trade symbols
14. tobacconists' figures

Narrower term/s

• cigar-store Indians

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to carved wooden figures, usually life-sized, set up as advertisements in front of or just inside of cigar stores; popular in the United States from the early 19th century until the 1890s.