Theme #51: The Sea Pickup at the Gauguin Museum

Hiro’a Tumu immerses us in the heart of the richness of Polynesian historical heritage through places, objects or emblematic fenua monuments.


updated on June 30, 2022 at 12:50 p.m.

At the Gauguin Museum in Papeari rests the tiki Moana, one of the three ti’i with an enigmatic and tragic past. In 1934, the Raivavae tikis were installed in the Museum of Tahiti. A few years later, in 1965, their move to the Gauguin Museum in Papeari began with these tikis, which would be responsible for more than half a dozen deaths.

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