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The figurehead is a usually carved in wood and decorated or painted decorative figure formerly carrying vessels in the high part of the breakwater, according to the hierarchy of the boat that adorned.Its use was widespread from the 16th to the 19th century in the Galleons that crossed the seas. It was gradually disappearing with the irruption of ships of steel in the first world war.[citation needed]Not literate had the double object of garnish and serve as identification to a society marinera, in those times as a whole