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114 place under, to say the least, questionable circumstances, especially in the cases of the removal of objects from the Maraa cave in Tahiti, and objects taken from the marae, such as the “idol’s head, Hanapaaoa (Hiva Oa Island). The removal of the stone in March 1909 put the participants’ lives at risk, as the marae was particularly venerated and feared.” This is inv. V.3, according to the information on List A. 20. We have identifi ed the painting as Et l’or de leur corps, produced in 1901 and now in the Musée du Quai d’Orsay. 21. In addition to a number that corresponds to the original List A, some objects retain a customs label or stamp. 22. On List A, for entry 122, the words “‘Tiki,’ provenance Gilbert or Solomon Islands” are crossed out in pen by van Gennep’s hand: “given to A.v.GP.” This object is actually the Easter Island moai tangata (V.215), which he recognized and sold back to the museum in December of 1914 (Knapp 1910; Orliac 2002: 196–197). 23. It is possible that Krajewski visited Neuchâtel in person. 24. Email from Christelle Wick of June 1, 2006: “Necklace, gift of Van Gennep, St. Blaise, 19.11.1915.” 25. Mentions “B; Basel” or “G; Geneva.” 26. Letter from Anna Schmidt dated June 21, 2006. 27. Letter from Roberta Colombo Dougoud dated March 28, 2006. The Geneva inventory does not specify a Krajewski origin for all of the objects, and the Pittard objects of 1921 may be among them. Contrary to what has been stated before, the mooring post at the MEG (inv. 8937, illustrated in Tribal Art no. 73, p. 81, fi g. 13) is not from this lot. 28. Original quote: “If you should have any good pieces you would care to part with, I would be very pleased to buy or exchange—I remember particularly a carved Marquesan fi sh hook!” 29. H. A. Jaccard of the Musée Ethnographique de Lausanne was only vaguely interested from afar (card dated November 27 1919). Contrary to O’Reilly’s assertion (1946), an exchange was not involved nor was Zurich. 30. See our paper of September 18, 2009, at the PAA-E in Bonn: “Tikis & Co: About W. O. Oldman’s Business” (report revised and presented by Hermione Waterfi eld). 31. It is number 60 on List A but does not appear in Knapp’s expedition records. It was sold to New Zealand in 1948 and went to the Auckland Museum (identifi ed as 31610) (Oldman 2006: plate 8, no. 363). The object is described as “Deity. Hard brown wood, square shoulders; thin arms; ears merge into the sweep of the chin line, giving a comb-like effect to the head, very similar to the four masks on end of the paddle from Aitutaki, No. 368, plate 65, in the Maori volume. Surface shows signs of much weathering. Height, 12 in. Found in a cave at Maraa, Tahiti. Krajevski Expedition, 1908.” 32. Knapp had to use an intermediary to communicate, and when he wrote in French, Oldman enlisted the help of his friend Léo J. Serin in Forest- Brussels. 33. Email of August 14, 2007, from Robert Hales. 34. Number 27 on List A corresponds to number 11 on Knapp’s list. Sold to New Zealand in 1948 and went to the Auckland Museum (identifi ed as 31897) (Oldman 2006: plate 8, no. 366). The object is described as “Deity. Carved from fi ne-grained coral; standing fi gure with hands up to mouth; very thick body; square shoulders; one leg broken; side-view shown in photograph; much weathered. Height, 5 in.; width, 2 1/2 in.; thickness, 2 1/4 in. Tahiti. Krajevski Expedition, 1908.” It was exhibited in July 2015 at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS University, London (King 2015: 121–122). 35. Number 81 on List A corresponds to number 29 on Knapp’s list (Oldman 2006: plate 103, no. 193), perhaps at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington. It is described as “Bowl with cover, close hard brown heavy wood in the form of a turtle with projecting human head. At the tail end of bowl is a recessed lip for pouring. Domed and deeply fl anged lid with projecting tail. Length, 22 in.; width, 14 in.; head, 3 1/4 by 2 1/8 in. wide. Ex. Krajevski Expedition. Marquesas.” 36. Number 4 on List A corresponds to number 1 on Knapp’s list (Oldman 2006: plate 7, no. 181), perhaps at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington. 37. Number 6 on List A corresponds to number 2 on Knapp’s list (Oldman 2006: plate 7, no, 361), at the Auckland Museum (identifi ed as 31635). 38. Number 37 on List A corresponds to number 16 on Knapp’s list (Oldman 2006: plate 100, no. 209), perhaps at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington. 39. Sold to New Zealand in 1948 and went to the Canterbury Museum (identifi ed as E150.1102) (Oldman 2006: plate 110, no. 222). America entered the ethnographic collection. The MEN library also has the two volumes of B. G. Niebuhr’s Lectures of Ancient History, published in London in 1852, from the English Library of Paris, annotated in pen with “Property of Favarger-Bourgeois.” 9. In a letter dated December 9, 1879, Antoine Borel writes to his brother, Alfred, about the mortgage bank’s clients: “Your fi rst letter informed me that M. Favarger Bourgeois would gladly agree to a lower interest rate. If this friend prefers …” (Wasserfallen 2002: 171). 10. Contrary to what may have been suggested earlier, the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève’s example comes neither from the Favarger Collection nor from the Krajewski Collection. 11. Both von den Steinen and Oldman were very taken with this piece. 12. http://www.museumcolmar.org/collections-shnec/ethnographie/ (accessed September 26, 2014). See our paper of May 13, 2006, at Norwich in the context of the PAA-E: “Questions Around Early Marquesan Images: The Case of the Travel Album of Jean-Daniel Rohr.” 13. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/decouvrir/ expositions/oceanie/oceanie_frames.htm (Accessed September 26, 2014). 14. See Art ancestral, 2008. 15. In the particular case of the dispersed Krajewski Collection, it is diffi cult to establish exactly what is missing from it, since the annotations, the correspondence, and the objects still in the MEN do not match. 16. A building that belonged to Mme. Henry Du Pasquier, according to Neuchâtel town records accessed December 8, 2015. 17. Everything suggests that what is being referred to here is the Krajewski Collection. Van Gennep, the instigator of the idea (see Rapport des musées pour l’année 1915, p. 3), boasted and presented himself, in a letter addressed to Michel Vulpesco on September 7, 1926, as the organizer of a “Temporary exhibition, to which some thirty collectors had lent nearly a million francs worth of objects” (MEN archives). 18. Absent from Father O’Reilly’s 1962 publication, but he appears in the 1966 supplement with a portrait by J. L. Saquet. 19. Unfortunately, few details are available concerning Krajewski’s 1908– 1909 voyage in the South Seas, but it appears that the “collecting” took FEATURE FIG. 16 (preceding page, lower right): Plate 100 from the Oldman Polynesian Collection. From Oldman 2006. FIG. 17 (above): Figure of the deity Tanaheke. Omoa Valley, Fatuhiva Island, Marquesas Islands. Stone. H: 74 cm. MEN V.2 (Krajewski Collection). Photo © A. Germond, Neuchâtel.


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