Trois destinées, un destin

• Published in: Gradhiva
• Main Author: Mauzé, Marie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac 2011
• Subjects: Amérique du Nord (Canada); collecte; collection; côte nord-ouest; kwakiutl (kwakwaka’wakw); objet; potlatch; Premières nations; restitution; surréalisme; collecting; First Nations; North America (Canada); North-West coast; object; repatriation; surrealism; litt; hist; Canada; Oona; Premières Nations
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/1084

A ceremonial headdress which was part of the collection of surrealist poet André Breton was repatriated to the Kwakwaka’wakw of British Colombia in September 2003 following the initiative of Aube Elléouët-Breton and of her daughter Oona. Beginning with a critical analysis of the singular history of...