Female
In general, the planks on which the female figure is found are dominated by floral representations, combined with a boat motif - sometimes portrayed in a highly stylized manner - with stem and stern posts curving inwards. As with luli statues, in this boat motif a tree-like figure rises amidships.
On some female plank statues a whole series of boat-like forms, placed immediately above one another, are linked together. The motif, often stylized and in open-work, is repeated at the top of the plank (RMV 1467-5). Our impression is that the boat motif on the plank statues of Damar was used in the same way as in the luli from Lakor - it represented the founding mother as the source of fertility.