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Head with Horns, before 1894

Unknown artist/maker, Previous Attribution: Paul Gauguin

Sandalwood with traces of polychromy on a lacewood base

8 11/16 × 9 × 4 3/4 in.

This sculpture was photographed and labeled "Marquesan Idole" by Jules Agostini (French, 1859-1930) in November 1894, in the Marquesas Islands, in Nuku Hiva (Paris, musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Agostini's photo albums). Sent to work for the French State in Oceania, Agostini stopped in the Marquesas Islands in late November 1894 just before arriving in Tahiti, where he stayed until 1898.

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