{"id":35030,"date":"2026-11-03T08:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/?page_id=35030"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:52","slug":"fang-byeri-reliquaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/fang-byeri-reliquaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fang reliquaries: byeri figures and heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The catalogue records nlo byeri heads and eyema byeri figures, as well as an ensemble named Byeri on a reliquary. Six references offer a route between these designations and their photographs. This selection is restricted to records attributed to the Fang; neighbouring peoples are not automatically included.<\/p>\n<p>In RLC-59, Arrimadas distinguishes the figure from the container it guards. That distinction provides a useful way to approach the photographs: the object pictured today and the historical ensemble described are not necessarily identical. Each entry preserves the complete account and the reference needed to follow that difference.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Documented context<\/h2>\n<p>The Met connects Fang byeri with continuity between generations and describes heads or figures placed above bark containers holding ancestral relics. This explains an ensemble; it does not establish that a particular figure here retains remains or prove its provenance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/310870\" rel=\"noopener\">The Metropolitan Museum of Art \u00b7 Eyema byeri, Okak-Fang<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Reading the catalogue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"document-attribution\">Original historical document in Spanish<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"es\">\n<p>El llamado culto del Byeri o rito Melan es una ceremonia familiar que inicia a los ne\u00f3fitos en el culto de los antepasados tras unas ceremonias de purificaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/coleccion\/eyema-byeri-about-reliquary-rlc-59\/\">Jes\u00fas Arrimadas Saavedra \u00b7 original catalogue \u00b7 RLC-59<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">This quotation retains the archive\u2019s wording. Editorial context and comparative sources do not certify the objects\u2019 attribution, age or provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The catalogue records nlo byeri heads and eyema byeri figures, as well as an ensemble named Byeri on a reliquary. Six references offer a route between these designations and their photographs. This selection is restricted to records attributed to the Fang; neighbouring peoples are not automatically included. In RLC-59, Arrimadas distinguishes the figure from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35030","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35060,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35030\/revisions\/35060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}