Context (Amendments / updates)
Duplicate card [undated] stored under 'Ceremonial tablets & shields' in the workroom notes the same physical description, reference and donor details, but is filed as No. 17' and adds in pencil, 'Over case 29'.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Additional information on original catalogue card [in pencil]: 'No 29-31 on display/above wall case' and 'Over case 29/No.29-31'. Later addition [in black ink]: 'Box 49G Rack x 163 A'. A circular red sticker adheres to the top right corner of the catalogue card, with '7' written next to it.
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Amendments / updates)
An image of the object was found in preparation for the image upload onto the FileMaker database. No record was found for the object however, as a result this new record was created from the catalogue card. R. vd. Velden, 12/04/2016.'
Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Remke Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Ceremonial tablet, Koe. Painted oval, with pointed oval projection at top pierced & decorated with human face design, long basal tang decorated with 4 toothed lines in red & black, hole at each side. Slightly concave-convex. Irregular border of toothed (mouth?) design, human face in centre with pierced projecting nose.
Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Amendments / updates)
Original card reads, '... with 4 toothed likes in red ...'. However, the '4' was crossed out and corrected for '3' in duplicate card. Date unknown.
Event Date 2/5/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
A gope, (spirit or ancestor board), kept in the men's house. Also called kwoi or hohao, depending where it was made. Powerful spirits (imunu) were associated with a specific location in the landscape, rivers, or sea, and were linked to the specific clan within whose territory they dwelt. Individual imunu inhabited gope boards and their image appears on the front.
Event Date 2/5/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu