But the law does not cover sacred objects privately owned.
He found his calling as a carver of sacred objects in 1931.
The family sits to the right, and the back wall is reserved for sacred objects.
If a community's sacred objects are not safe, nothing is.
The sacred object was too ancient for any records ever to have been kept.
We understand how deeply people can become attached to sacred objects.
Her family guards them like the sacred objects they have now become.
They built their structure around this and the rock was than probably used as a sacred object.
"This is a religious and sacred object to us," he said.
They built a shrine around the stone and it became a sacred object.