Provenance:
Lewis/Wara Gallery, Seattle, 2003
Alex Philips, Melbourne
Collected by A.B.Lewis, Chicago, 1912

This gope was photographed in Orokolo village by A.B. Lewis in 1912. The board is seen on the right side of Lewis' photo. Lewis' collection, photographs and notes are in the Field Museum, Chicago.

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: 58 (Fig. 92).

Robert Welsch. An American Anthropologist in Melanesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998: 475 (Fig.7.26).

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 and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York October 24, 2006 - December 2, 2007.