19th century, Milne Bay Province, Northern Massim, Papua New Guinea, wood, bees wax & monitor skin, mounted on a custom metal stand.Lg. 27 1/2 in. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM; Private collection, London, UK; Sotheby’s, Paris, Dec 12, 2012, Lot 28; Christie’s, London, October 21 1980, lot 320; Cornelis Pieter Meulendijk collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; C.M.A. Groenvelt collection, The Netherlands; Charles William Abel (1862 – 1930) London Missionary Society, arrived in New Guinea in 1890.