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The most common types of geriten are those which are raised on a single or multiple posts of moderate heights; with a seating platform under its roof. This type is normally 2.5 x 2.5 meters in width. The space below the geriten is used as a meeting point for youngsters or resting place for travelers.
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A geriten is a perishable structure. Offerings around a geriten are made only for a limited time after a person's death. Very often it became neglected after it had served in the final funeral ceremony. Many geriten were left to decay under the elements even in the late 19th-century. Larger geriten,
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figureheads were the standard ridge ornaments of Karo house roofs in general, however in mortuary structures such as the geriten, sometimes the buffalo figureheads were replaced with finely carved wooden boards representing plant motifs, or by small flags. A short distance inward of the roof-ridge,
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A geriten may assume the status of a village shrine when the skulls of the village founder and his ruling male descendants and their wives are kept below its roof. In 1883, Hagen noted a geriten in the village of
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behind where the neck part of the buffalo figurehead usually rises, another plant-like carving is attached, depicted as growing upward and outward. In the middle of the ridge, two similar plant-like forms rise. A model of a geriten displayed in the
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such as those used to place the remains of the chief, were usually the only ones that were maintained by the villagers. The tradition is in decline and geritens have become a rare sight.
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