I don't think I actually remember that statue. When do we see it?

And I can buy that they go for minimalist, utilitarian design rather than ornamentation (like the Vulcan Bauhaus, heh) but they really don't go for that in their ceremonial clothes. So that is quite the contrast in that period.

Comments on LJ raised the possibility that the statues might tie into their version of ancestor worship with the katras and such. Also that the weapons could have taken on symbolic meanings (like in slaying of ignorance and such).