Mangareva. Panthéon de Polynésie. Architecture – Paysage missionaries destroyed the ancestral Magarevian

missionaries destroyed the ancestral Magarevian culture in just a few years

Ernesto WOLF Collection

ten years after it went out of print

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whom the imagination would not conceive

Mangareva. Panthéon de Polynésie. Architecture – Paysage missionaries destroyed the ancestral MagarevianUnknown until 1797, discovered by Captain James Wilson, the island of Mangareva, in the heart of Polynesia, is the largest island in the Gambier archipelago. Starting in 1834, missionaries destroyed the ancestral Magarevian culture in just a few years, fortunately capturing the myths and customs of which Father Laval collected. Only twelve extraordinary wooden sculptures remain today, all made in one piece. These exceptional remains, due to their