Presumably collected in situ by a member of the London Missionary Society in the 1820s
Captain Silas Jones, Jr. (1814-1896) or Captain Augustus Lawrence (1819-1856), acquired in Tahiti or Tonga on one of the voyages of the ships Awashonks, Hobomoc or Commodore Morris, 1833-1864
By descent from the above and given to the Falmouth Historical Society, Falmouth, Massachusetts, ca. 1904
William Jamieson, Toronto, acquired from the above on December 22, 2010
Sold by Heinrich Schweizer to a Private Collection, 2011

Louise Nicholson and Reed Young, “A Temple to Art,” Apollo, September 2011, 54, fig. 6