This head was previously in the collection of the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum. The CEM was established by Harry Geoffrey and Irene Marguerite Beasley in 1928. This piece was part of the donation made by Irene M. Beasley to the British Museum in 1944, when the whole Beasley collection was distributed following H. G. Beasley's death in 1939. The Beasley Collection ledger reads: 'A Bronze head 21 inches high, fully decorated in coral and having a long peak rising from the forehead. Belonged to W.L. Gabbett and presented by him to Mrs J.D. Gartside Spaight (widow of General Spaight), Hermitage, St. Mawes, Cornwall.' Acquired by Beasley on 24 September 1936.