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The Surrealists, most of them from France, as well as their friends, were among the first to take an interest in the cultures of the Hopi and Zuni tribes, and the first to collect kachina dolls at the beginning of the 20th century. Breton, Eluard, Max Ernst, Claude LÈvi-Strauss and AndrÈ Malraux acquired their kachinas either during the exile forced on them during the Second World War, or later during trips to the United States.
In fact, it was after the exhibition at the MusÈe de la Vieille CharitÈ in Marseilles in 1994, and during the exhibition that was held at the Pavillon des Arts in Paris in 1998, that the number of kachina amateurs grew. Since that time, the Galerie Flak has contributed to maintaining this interest among a public touched not only by the kachina dolls themselves, but by the philosophy and rituals underlying their creation
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