The cult image was given to English missionaries in the early nineteenth century as the local population converted to Christianity.
[2] The small statue of the god is carved from highly polished ironwood (Casuarina equisetifolia).
Shown standing upright, small anthropomorphic figurines are carved in high relief around the chest and arms.
Coir bindings along the arm cover remains of a cloth and feathers that would have once been worn by the deity.
The exact meaning and name of this masculine idol remains unknown but, based on its artistic style (particularly the distinctive formation of the eyes), it has been attributed to a workshop on the island of Rarotonga.