"Originating from the coastal region of the Sepik and Ramu Rivers this highly complex neckrest belongs to a corpus of about ten known specimens. It most closely relates to the example in the National Museum in Copenhagen, which was given to them in 1906. Both have attenuated Janus heads with a stylized totemic lizard beneath. The hanging figures are also similar in their triangulation of the body and head." (Conru 1999:33)

Provenance:
Alan Steele, New York 2000
Kevin Conru, Brussels
Lars Berglund, Sweden
Eric Grate, 1957
Statens Etnografiska Museet, Stockholm
Collected by Birger Mörner between 1906-1912

Publishing History:
Kevin Conru. The Colours of Melanesia. London/Brussels. Conru Primitive Art, 1999: 62-63 fig.33.

Stockholm. Statens Etnografiska Museet. Primitiv Konst. Stockholm, 1947: plate 147.