Eyema Byeri are figures made of wood that belonged to the byeri reliquary of the Fang living in Equitorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon. As guardian figures, they were attached to or on reliquary containers made of tree bark, in which skulls, bone parts, glass beads or even pieces of jewellery from ancestors were kept. Both were kept in the rooms of family heads, hidden from the view of women and non-initiated men. The figurines played an important role in the melan ritual, the initiation of young men. Here they were played like puppets in front of the initiates to symbolise the resurrection of the dead.