In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre. Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African fetishes were on view under the same roof as the Mona Lisa. Then, in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac presided over the opening of a new museum dedicated to primitive art in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower: the Musée du Quai Branly. Paris Primitive recounts…
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Ethnology, franceFrance, social life and customsMuseums, franceHistoryEthnological museums and collectionsEthnologySocial life and customsMusée du quai Branly
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America
