"This carving...illustrates a legend of an ancestral woman carried through the air by her sons, a pair of eagles." (Newton 1967:#63)

Provenance:
Tambaran Gallery, New York 1999
Sotheby's New York, November 14, 1980
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1978-1980 (1978.412.839)
The Museum of Primitive Art, New York 1964-1978 (64.76)
E. Rassiga 1964
Raw Material Processing Company, Melbourne 1961

Publishing History:
Douglas Newton. New Guinea Art in the Collection of the Museum of Primitive Art. New York, MPA, 1967: plate 63.

Exhibition History:
Louisville, Kentucky. Allen R.Hite Institue. Oceanic Sculpture from the Museum of Primitive Art. Dec.4, 1967-January 10, 1968.
Lincroft NJ. The Monmouth Museum. Curious Creatures and Bizarre Beasts. January 21, 1979-April 15, 1979.
Museum of Primitive Art. Masterpieces of the Sourth Seas, May 19 - October 3, 1965: no.48