Curated by André Delpuech (General Curator of Heritage, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Alexandre Koyré Center, Paris, France), the exhibition “Taïnos et Kalinagos des Antilles” [Taïnos and Kalinagos of the Antilles] will be on view from June 4 to October 13, 2024, at the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac.

Description: “Taïnos et Kalinagos des Antilles” pays homage to the exhibition presented thirty years ago at the Petit Palais at the initiative of Jacques Chirac and considered as a prelude to the birth of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum.

In 1994, Jacques Chirac entrusted the collector and art dealer Jacques Kerchache with the curatorship of an exhibition on the art of the Tainos, a people of the Greater Antilles swallowed up by the Spanish conquest. Presented at the Petit Palais, this event dedicated to a little-known art was a resounding success and initiated a change in the general public’s outlook on non-Western arts.

Inseparable, the Taínos and the Kalinagos are two indigenous societies that populated the Caribbean before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Despite their virtual disappearance in the 16th century—decimated in a decade by disease and forced labor—many Caribbeans considered today as their descendants.

Translated by Ivette Romero. For the original post, see https://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/details-de-levenement/e/tainos-et-kalinagos-des-antilles