FEATURE
FIG. 34 (right): Nimangki and Nalawan
society grade fi gure.
Malekula Island, Vanuatu. Before 1931.
Vegetal matrix, human hair, seeds, clay, bamboo,
pigments. H: 67.3 cm.
André Breton or Paul Éluard, Paris; Étude Bellier,
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2–3 July 1931, lot 135; Henry
Wellcome, London; the Wellcome Trust.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, gift of the Wellcome Trust,
inv. X65.8800. Photo: Don Cole.
FIG. 35 (above): Page from the 1931
Breton/Éluard catalog showing fi gure 34.
Image courtesy of the author.
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