Provenance:
Tambaran Gallery, New York, 2004
Royal S. Marks Foundation Fund
Collected by Roy Hedlund in Gibi village, April 1961

This board was collected by Roy J.Hedlund and is seen in two Polariod photographs. Several objects that Hedlund collected and many of his photographs are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Webb 2005)

Publishing History:
Robert Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, Sebastian Haraha. Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf. New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, 2006:76-77 (Figs.130,131).

Exhibition History:
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. October 24, 2006 -December 2, 2007.