ciety, and the rare wooden Tahitian ti’i mentioned above is among them, as is one made of white coral,34 which appears 112 in the same photograph (fi g. 14). They also “include a large wooden bowl from the Marquesas Islands with a turtle-shaped cover.”35 Also from the Marquesas are a deity in volcanic stone,36 another from Tahiti,37 a pae kea,38 and, lastly, the “top of a pounder,” which cannot be found on any list (fi g. 13).39 In all, some forty percent of the Krajewski Collection left Neuchâtel in this manner, but the proceeds from the sale brought in only twenty percent of the original investment. Although Théodore Delachaux undertook the meticulous work of creating an inventory for what was left of the Krajewski Collection—apparently without knowing about the existence of Lists A and B—disruptions had already occurred by the time he began his work. Groups of objects had been separated and elements from them had been moved to different places. Consequently, the numbers that follow could be misleading. Without deducting the few objects that had been missing FIG. 11 (left): Letter from W. O. Oldman dated October 19, 1920, acknowledging receipt of his acquisitions. MEN archives. FIGS. 12 and 13 (below): Plates 7 and 110 from the Oldman Polynesian Collection. From Oldman 2006.
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