Provenance
Photographed in situ by Paul Wirz, 1930
Roy J. Hedlund (field collected in Ubuo’o village, Kikori Delta, October 1961)
Roy James Hedlund and L.R. Webb, shipped to New York, April 1962
Arthur Cohen Collection, New York, 1962
Entwistle, London, [Ref. No. R623], 1982
Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above, 1982)
Selected Exhibition History
1 April-17 September 2006, Dartmouth, CT, Hood Museum of Art, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf
24 October 2006-2 December 2007, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf
Selected Publication History
Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society of the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, NH, 2006, p. 38, Fig. 67
Robert L. Welsch, “Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea,” in: Tribal Arts, Vol. XI, 2, 43, Winter 2006, p. 103, Fig. 6