Stéphen-Charles Chauvet, Paris

Presumably Maurice Ratton, Paris, a🐓cquired from the estate of the above in 1967

Hôtel Dr𒈔ouot, Paris, sold at auction circa 1970, presumably consigned by the above

Harry A. Franklin, Beverly Hills, ac⛎quired at the above auction

According to Harry Franklin's notes, this patu onewa was once in the collection of Stéphen-Charles Chauvet, more commonly known as Dr Stéphen Chauvet, collector and author of L'île de Pâques et ses mystères and Les arts indigènes en Nouvelle-Guinée

. A sizeable group of objects fr𝐆om Chauvet's collection was acquired in 1967 by Maurice Ratton ♈(see 

Arts d'Afrique Noire, No. 63, Autumn 1987, p. 6).