Calinago, Lesser Antilles, cabinets of curiosities, ethnographic objects (Other Keyword)
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On the trail of Calinago Ethnographic Objects from the Lesser Antilles in European Museums (2016)
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From the first contacts with the Amerindians, conquerors, voyagers, missionaries and so on have brought back to Europe numerous attributes of the New World: natural curiosities as well as manufactured objects. Various historical sources attest to the presence in France of seventeenth and eighteenth century Amerindian objects from the Lesser Antilles in some cabinets of curiosities. Today, paradoxically, not a single object in contemporary collections is attributed to the Calinago or so called...