Anyway, look what I saw today. Québec advertising itself in Paris! And it's not "bonjour - hi".
Also seen today. I thought you'd find that interesting.
There was also a casse-tête that I didn't photograph, from the Great Lakes region, brought back to France in the 17th century, that was used by the Amerindians to ritually kill their prisoners captured in wars.
A fascinating little collection of (what we would call today) arts premiers (tribal art) that was assembled in the 17th and 18th centuries by one of the abbeys of Paris and which has survived the French Revolution and is still present in the collection of that abbey today, to which I had access (the objects were only recently picked from the reserves of that abbey where they had slept for 200 years). There was also a beautiful smoking pipe from the Great Lakes region with some large feathers still attached to it, 17th century.
What struck me was how very advanced and sophisticated was the craftsmanship of the Eastern Seaboard Amerindians back then (far superior to the rural European craftsmanship from the 17th century), compared to the degeneracy and impoverishment of these tribes in the 19th century. We have really destroyed these people, it's insane.
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