BAGA ; T-shol
In each family house where the eldest member of
the family resides, a dark corner  is reserved for the
elekel; shrine. Which is reinvigorated periodically
with sacrificial blood. The shrine includes a  flywhisk
made from cow's tail. A basket protect the whole
assemblage.  Next to , or on top of, the basket is
elek sculpture embodying the esemble of that bears
its name. The elek was present at funerals of family
heads, adult members of the  group, neighbours,
allies, and all other important persons. To say that
the elek  represented the lineage of these
occasions in insufficient;  it was at once the
protector of the group and its most visible sign. It
incarnated in ome sense the file of the lineage.