Check the listing for details. African Art Skeleton Statue TIV 1412. Listed at 368.61 USD. But the TIV who had buried their families on the jukun lands could no longer repatriate the remains. They tried to negotiate to have the right to honor their deaths on Jukun lands, but they no longer wanted to see TIV on their land, even to organize mortuary commemorative ceremonies. After another dream, the soothsayers ordered all the TIV people to make each a coffin and a miniature skeleton. It would be buried at home after having made the rites that we made to the dead and organized a large funeral ceremony in the main square of the market at the time. And as the times passed, they began to sculpt increasingly large skeletons. Each era had roughly its size. Today size has a meaning and means that man was born (small skeleton), man grew up (average size) then man lived (large size). The.