Punu, Tsogho, and Sangu patrons in central and southern Gabon commissioned wood figurative elements that were integrated with relic bundles wrapped in hide at the base. Intact examples attest to an overall aesthetic of the exactingly defined figurative element conjoined with the amorphous relic packet. This genre of representation ranges from half figures to busts whose placement, poised at the summit of the gathered ancestral matter, affords them an immaterial aspect.