Though primarily seen as an ancestral figure, some Victorian sources also associate her with the land.

Later in his quarters, Spock sat motionless before the ancestral figure from his family shrine.

The ancestral figures that decorated it traced the clan's history to its beginnings.

The original forms of the letters themselves were said to have been invented by the even earlier ancestral figure, Henos.

In this role he represents an ancestral figure.

"Those are things the ancestral figure would not have had in real life," Mr. MacConnel said.

Outside, a stool, carved from a single piece of wood, depicts a male ancestral figure supporting a seat on his shoulders.

Indalete, who was inspired by this ancestral figure, has a kind, likeable and very youthful appearance.

The first gallery houses ancestral figures, gods and mythical heroes.

Subjects include ancestral figures, spirits, human faces and ceremonial masks.