This figurehead is one of several in the MOHAI collection donated by Horace W. McCurdy. McCurdy (1899-1989), born in Port Townsend, was a shipbuilder, bridge builder, civic leader, native Washingtonian, and prolific maritime collector. Both the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the Hood Canal Bridge were built by his firm, Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging. He was instrumental in the establishment and early development of MOHAI and he donated over 500 maritime-related artifacts to the collection. Sometime after the Iolanda was dismantled, the figurehead was purchased by Trader Vic, a restauranteur and owner of the "Outrigger" in the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Seattle. When the restaurant was remodeled, McCurdy coordinated the figureheads donation to MOHAI.