effigy

He said there were "lots of ideas of how it first started" but looking back through history, "most of it was to do with 1605 when bonfires and effigies were burnt and barrels were plentiful".

True to the festival’s name, every structure at Burning Man is temporary, as many buildings, along with the effigy, are set on fire by the end of the festival.

A gallows was erected; an effigy of a Chinese man swung from a noose.

True to its name, every structure is temporary as many buildings, along with the effigy, are burned to the ground by the end of the festival.

The man’s body was discovered shortly after the giant effigy of “Burning Man” was lighted on fire.