Gauguin's figure seems to invoke the Polynesian goddess Hina, depicted by Morice as a Diana-like deity clutching a wolf cub, "monstrous and majestic, drunk with pride, rage and sorrow" [REF].
Oviri was the title of a favourite Tahitian song - a melancholy tune of love and longing that mentions the subject's "savage, restless heart" [REF].