Reliquary: A container for relics. These may be the purported or actual physical remains, such as bones, teeth, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with a person one wants to save as a memory.
This found object assemblage features bronzed baby shoes, with teeth, on the pedestal is a container, shaped like a tooth, with space for your child’s baby teeth. You can save the teeth in this container, or use it as a place that perhaps the “tooth fairy” will pick up your baby’s teeth, and deposit a meager
offering for the child.
