This figure, which has been exhibited just once before, is seen in its original context in the accompanying photograph by Paul B. de Rautenfeld. Only two figures of this style are known to exist. Paul Wirz took photographs of similar figures made out of vegetation holding a bow and arrow and positioned at the entrance to a longhouse, which reinforce the interpretation of irivake as guardian figures. An alternate interpretation, based on a local story, is that irivake were spirit figures and warriors who lived in the clouds and occasionally released bolts of thunder and lighting.