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Ernest Wauchope 115 mentioned in this article were collected from 1925 to 1935. While none of the fl ute stoppers Wauchope gave to the members of the La Korrigane expedition ultimately entered the collection of the Musée de l’Homme, other objects from the Wauchope Collection subsequently have found their way into the Musée du Quai Branly’s collection. These objects were purchased from dealer Gene van den Grecken in 1966 by Professor Jean Guiart while on an expedition to Australia sponsored by the Budget de la Direction des Arts et Lettres for the benefi t of the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens in Paris. Four of these objects, one of them from the Yuat River area are said to have come from the Wauchope Collection (Guiart 1937: fi gs. 3, 4, 7, and 8). According to Harry Beran (2006), some of these pieces were created by a master faker working within the framework of a massive fraud. Ernest Wauchope’s story still remains to be told in full, and many of the facets of his collecting life remain a mystery. NOTES 1. This essay, prepared in 2011 for the annual Pacifi c Arts Association symposium in Leiden, was reworked and completed for the present article. We wish to thank Yvonne Carrillo, Kirk Kaufman, Philippe Peltier, and Harry Beran for their help with the research that made it possible for it to be written. 2. On March 28, 1934, two couples, Etienne and Monique de Ganay and Charles and Régine van den Broek, their single friend Jean Ratisbonne, and nine sailors left Marseille aboard the yacht La Korrigane on a trip around the world. They returned to their home port in June of 1936 having collected about 2,500 ethnographic objects, taken thousands of photographs, and making a number of fi lms (Coiffi er 2001 and 2014). 3. Cf. letter from Ernest Wauchope dated August 26, 1934, to the secretary of the Australian Museum in Sydney. 4. Cf. note to the trustees of the Australian Museum dated July 5, 1934, titled “E. J. Wauchope, Awar Plantation, Collecting Ethnographical Specimens.” 5. Cf. letter from the secretary of the Australian Museum to E. Wauchope, dated January 30, 1935. 6. Cf. letter from the Central Administration of the Territory of New Guinea in Rabaul to the secretary of the Australian Museum, dated May 2, 1935. It is signed by Ramsay McNicoll. 7. Cf. note from the Australian Museum, dated August 1935, and approved by the trustees, titled “Wauchope E. J. Collecting New Guinea Specimens.” 8. The ethnologist had asked Bob Overall to keep this large mosquito net for him for use on one of his future trips to the area. 9. The District Offi cers were called kiaps in Pidgin English. 10. She writes in her memoirs about how the ship’s passengers discovered the La Korrigane stranded on the sandbank: “Then suddenly, rounding a bend, we saw the French barquentine La Korrigane, anchored. There was no mistaking her; a splendid, most picturesque, expensive looking schooner was on a study tour around the world collecting for the Trocadéro museum” (Fortune 1998: 179–180). 11. Cf. letter by Ernest Wauchope dated June 22, 1935. FIG. 23: Gable sculpture for a ceremonial house. Wood, pigment. H: 106 cm. Ex Jolika Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Reproduced by permission of Christie’s, Paris. © Christie’s Images Limited.


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