Tavu and luli
As far as design is concerned, Tanimbar plank statues have interesting things in common with the Lakor luli figures. Both types go to similar extremes. Like luli statues, tavu on the one hand may show a quite realistically designed human form, decorated with various ornamentation (RMV 2235-1), while on the other hand there are also plank statues that are completely dominated by applied decorative motifs in which the human figure, as it were, is absorbed into the ornamentation (RMV 3600-3965). And, as with luli statues, various 'mixed' forms are found between the realistic and the more abstract family shrines.