Museums - Musée de Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque

Here the ethnographic collection consists primarily of a group of more than 200 Oceanic objects from Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, the Marquesas Islands, and the Carolines, the result of several South Pacific expeditions, including those of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux (1791–1794) and Dumont d’Urville (1837–1840), whose lieutenant, Barlatier Demas, collected numerous Polynesian objects. There is also a tattooed Maori head, which was probably collected on Freycinet’s voyage. About sixty American Indian pieces and weapons from Cameroon, Gabon, and Senegal complete the ethnographic collections.