English version Version française Deutsche Fassung The Marquesan’s Gauguin Restitution of Gauguin’s skull Gauguin official painter of France Gauguin the last warrior Gauguin celebrity Gauguin Jackpot The grave of Gauguin Restitution of Gauguin’s skull When you visit ethnographic museums, you find among the items from the South Pacific a lot of decorated human skulls. The first tourists, explorers, were in high demand of these "artefacts." Today, according to a convention of the United Nations, these human bones must be returned by request of the family or the tribe concerned. Many descendants of South Pacific islanders have already made use of this regulation, in particular the New Zealand Maori. From the Marquesas Islands also come decorated human skulls, now preserved in various museums and private collections (Lille, La Rochelle, Colmar). So far, demand for return has not yet been made. If these demands are justified or not is not my problem. I just ask the following question : What would happen if the Gauguin family asked to handle back the skull of their famous ancestor?