It is the adventure of a lifetime - and even more of a civilization - that Roger Boulay crystallizes in a book that has just been released *.
This museologist with round glasses and a mischievous smile (we owe him, in recent years, original exhibitions on the image of the cannibal and the vahine, on the figure of the explorer or on the character of Tarzan) presents a selection of his watercolors which will soon be available at the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris.
Combined with dimensions and other formal details, they represent fascinating objects captured from several angles.
Here are hieratic statuettes and statues, large grimacing masks - figures with hooked noses, pigeon feathers and real hair -, shell coins, appliques, door frames, ridge arrows and other elements of decor of boxes.
And more monstrance axes, stone sling balls, engraved bamboo stems or ingenious spear thrusters ...
The discovery of each of these leaves
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