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Democratic Republic of the Congo One of the visiaully striking abstract forms in African culture, resembling the "Eternal column" from Brancusi, are the Metoko posts. The use of repeated, stacked conical forms reference to the following of generations - the single head on top would be the ritual expert introducing the next generation on the social mores of the metoko society during the initiation periods. Cf. Published in the African Heritage Documentation Center under nr. 0035379