![Detail of the Vessel of friendship, a gold model of a Chinese ship](https://cmsadmin.rct.uk/sites/default/files/lead_image_half_height/Royal_gifts_exhibition_banner_half.jpg)
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Bieri (reliquary guardian)
RCIN 99668
This is a modern copy of an original Bieri, a traditional reliquary guardian, which would have stood in a family home of the Fang people to remember a deceased ancestor.
From the Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to the United Kingdom, Mari-Cruz Evuna Andeme, 2012
From the Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to the United Kingdom, Mari-Cruz Evuna Andeme, 2012