77 This is the first exhibition in France to be dedicated entirely to the Solomon Islands. Organized in collaboration with Sandra Revolon (associate professor, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, CREDO 7308), the installation follows a thematic sequence (power and prestige, violence and war, Shadows and water spirits) and includes more than 200 works drawn from French, British, and Swiss collections.Most of these were collected between the beginning of the nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth centuries by explorers, traders, missionaries, travelers, and British colonial officials who settled there during that time period (Burt, 2013). The presence of some of these encouraged the manufacture of certain types of sometimes hybrid objects. The exceptional photographic portfolio of the Count Festetics de Tolna Collection, which dates to 1895, documents that time and includes striking portraits of powerful individuals adorned with the precious objects that confirmed their status. In France, after such nineteenth-century collections enlightened aficionados and pre-historians (among them Prince Roland Bonaparte and Louis Vésigné), museum expeditions (La Korrigane, 1935) and anthropological surveys FIG. 4a and b (left): Club. Santa Ysabel. 19th century. Wood, shell, vegetal fiber. H: 133 cm. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, inv. 71.1950.30.334. © Musée du Quai Branly. Photo: Claude Germain. FIG. 5 (right): Shield club, roromaraugi. Makira. 19th century. Wood, shell, fiber. H: 138 cm. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, inv. 72.53.480. © Musée du Quai Branly. Photo: Claude Germain. FIG. 6a and b: Female figure. Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 19th century. Wood, shell, beads. H: 64 cm. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, inv. 71.1977.42.1. © Musée du Quai Branly. Photo: Claude Germain.
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