The carving is of a narrow human face with shell eyes. The teeth are exposed and the face is decorated with red, white and a blue-black colour. On the sides of the face are two decorations that cover the entire side of the face. The decoration appear to have eyes and has two long, projections going upwards like a crown in the front and back. The side decorations are also decorated in red, blue-black and white colour. The patterns on the decoration are faded. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection originates from Oskar Haesner, representative of North German Lloyd in Simpsonhafen in the colony of German New Guinea. Museum director Hugo Schauinsland met him on his collecting trip in 1906 and commissioned him to collect for the museum. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of the acquisition.