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The correct answer is PROTECTION. Unlike other animals represented in the carvings, such as sharks or lizards, which are considered evil beings, birds are considered benign ancestral ghosts, and by placing or showing them with humans they protect and guard them.
The policy of Appeasement intended to "appease" Hiter and Nazi Germany- meaning that they hoped if they satisfy some of Hitler's demands, it wouldn't come to a war and that in the end this solution would produce less victims.
Needless to say, it did not work and Hitler could not be appeased.