French Private Collection

Harry A. Franklin, Beverly Hills, acquired from the above in the 196🦹꧃0s

PUBLISHED

John Lunsford, Arts of Oceania, Dallas, 1970, n.p., cat. no. 88

George R. Ellis, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form, San Diego, 2009, p. 106, cat. no. 89

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Arts of Oceania, October 10 - November 29, 1970

San Diego Museum of Art, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form, January 31, 2009 - January 3, 2010

See Bonnemaison ed., Vanuatu, Océanie. Arts des îles de cendre et de corail, Paris, 1996, p. 39, fig. 51 for a closely related canoe prow, naho, collected on Atchin by Jean Guiart, and now in the collection of the mus꧅ée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris (inv. no. 72.1966.16ܫ.3).