Provenance:
Tookalook Gallery, Montreal, 2003
Scott and Tanya Rodolitz, New York
Jack Edler collection

Similar boards were photographed in situ in Maipua and Kairu villages by A.B.Lewis in 1912, see the black and white photograph and hand colored lantern slide here.

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: 22 (Fig.22).

Gregory Ghent. Emblems of Passage. San Francisco. Museum of Craft and Folk Art, 2002: no number.

Exhibition History:
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 1 - September 17, 2006. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York October 24, 2006 - December 2, 2007.