Figure Item Number: 3582/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Wooden navigation figure. The carving is of two similar wooden figures attached along their backs and heads, facing in opposite directions. The figures end at their thighs, which attach to a base of lime 'cement' with stingray spines embedded in it, projecting downward. Eight spines were originally attached, with four on each side, but currently two are broken off at the base and four others are partly broken. The figure has a long knotted and looped fibre cord attached at the top of the heads.
Navigation and weather-magic effigy ceremonial figure.
The effigy represents two guardian spirits, Yalulawei and Pelualap. The name of the figure, gos, derives from the word for a stingray spine.
Collected on Elato atoll by Shigeru Kaneshiro in 1957.