Statues - Fang statues can be classified into three groups, but the Woods Collection has three statues in only one of these classification, they are full figures, seated. Carved with great simplicity, at the same time they exhibit a high degree of sophistication in the co-ordination of Bulbous form. The neck is often a massive cylindrical form. Held in front of the chest or attached to it. The navel is often exaggerated into a cylindrical form.
Legs are short, stunted.
Usually there is a domed, wide forehead and the eyebrows often form arcs with the nose. The lips are closed and pressed. The hair is arranged in braids either falling down on the back of the head or swept back away from the neck. The Fang attached wooden figures to cylindrical bark boxes which contained the skulls and long bones of the important ancestors of the clan. The figures are intended to protect the relics from malevolent forces.