The strategy of assemblage in modern and contemporary art resonates closely with an array of African sculptures that feature a variety of applied materials and meaningful items. These works include Central African power figures and other empowered objects, such as this society display screen. The sacred emblem is an assemblage of objects associated with secrets underlying the rituals of the Ngbe Leopard Society. Ngbe is a male association responsible for law enforcement that continues to be an important social institution today. Attached to the central pillar of a society lodge, the emblem would have acted as a mnemonic device, as the objects carried secret symbolic meaning only understood by the initiated.