Chief's Headrest, Tikopia Island, Polynesian Outliersheight 12 3/8in (31.5cm)ProvenanceBengt Danielsson Collection, Pape'eteChristie's, New York, May 18, 1993, Lot 32Maureen Zarember, Tambaran Gallery, New YorkMark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Hawai'iPublishedKaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, 2010, fig. 234A superb example with the headrest portion finely carved from one piece of wood; raised sides with a serrated ridge on the underside; anthropomorphized with an animal-like head at each end, the wishbone-form legs adhered by finely woven fiber sennit cord; fine light-brown patina.