In 1930, this remarkable stone and shell carved gope was photographed by Paul Wirz inside a men’s house. That photograph is included here and is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. When women married, they brought a gope from their family’s men’s house to their husband, who placed it in his clan’s shrine. This explains the appearance of distinctly different styles of gope among similar looking groups of boards seen in photographs by Wirz and others.
