uranga Wood width 16 1/4in (41.2cm) Provenance Nelly Van de Abbeele Collection, Brussels/Amsterdam Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 December 1999, Lot 536 Unidentified Private Collection Christie's, Paris, June 2005, Lot 90 Constantine Simeonidis Collection, France Galerie Frank Marcelin, Paris Marc Assayag/Tookalook, Montreal Patrick and Ondine Mestdagh, Brussels Dr. Martin Hiscock Collection, South Yarra Jason Earle-Sprague Collection; Melbourne The urunga (headrest) is very often misidentified as a no'o'anga, (a seat), in museums, collections and auction catalogues. Although both the urunga and the no'o'anga followed essentially the same design within the Cook Islands, the elements which define the urunga are: smaller; lower profile; less curvature to rectangular platform (all in line with its function as a headrest); legs set farther towards the ends of rectangular platform, necessitated by the platform being both longer and lower, whereas, in no'o'anga,, the legs are closer to the center, so as to provide centralized support for the greater weight of the body.