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Some smart people decided to hang up effigy of Palin and Obama. Yeah. Someone might want to add that to the article. 74.140.222.56 (talk) 01:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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There is a bonfire with an effigy of Judas outside the church <<< george4n@hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.4.178.226 (talk • contribs)

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Has no one realized that "effigy" is not a noun? For example the previous sentence should be "There is a bonfire with Judas in effigy outside the church..." To use the word as a noun is common, but woeful and incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonnycando (talk • contribs) 20:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ef⋅fi⋅gy –noun, plural -gies. 1. a representation or image, esp. sculptured, as on a monument. 2. a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/effigy --Alexaxas (talk) 22:47, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lede definition problem. New article needed for archaeological effigies?

"An effigy is a representation of a specific person..."

Not in archaeology, where an effigy is considered (I think) to be any 3-D representation of a person, animal or plant (eg squash). Usually these are ceramic, for examples see Nazca culture. This is the New World usage, at least, and it would be good if a professional chimed in. I'm pretty knowledgeable but hardly professional!

We probably need a new article, as this one deals almost exclusively with Old World historical funerary effigies. Comments? TIA, --Pete Tillman (talk) 16:49, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt you are right there. Dictionaries? Johnbod (talk) 18:06, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

From "Effigy Vessels in the Prehistoric Southwest", by L.C. Hammack, an archaeologist with the Arizona State Museum, Tucson. Arizona Hiways, 2-74, special issue on prehistoric pottery of AZ.

An effigy vessel is "any vessel wholly or partially shaped to form a 3-D representation of a human, animal or plant."

So a logical title for the new article (or section) would be Effigy Vessels. A cursory search showed this term used only in our New World archaeology articles. I presume they're called something else in the Old World. --Pete Tillman (talk) 01:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]