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Provenance
Provenance
Lucia Ruggles Holman (1793–1886) and Dr. Thomas Holman (1793–1826), Hawaii, then Boston, then Bridgeport and Brookfield, Conn., by about 1821; by descent within the family to their great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Ives Bassett (born ca. 1880) and Bassett’s husband, Harrison F. Bassett (born ca. 1880), probably Connecticut, (on loan to the Bishop Museum, the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1918); given by Harrison F. Bassett to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1941 (on loan to the Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conn., 1941–2015)
Bibliography
Barry Rolett, "Treasures of Polynesian Art: A Legacy of American Contacts in the Pacific," Discovery 18, no. 1 (1985), ill.