... remain, possibly enhancing the frisson it imparts to the collector. African art Cheju Island collectors Gahoe Museum Naewattang shrine Cheju Island Picasso Pablo Price Sally “primitive art ” shaman paintings Trocadéro Museum of Ethnography “alternative modernities” Gaonkar art market...

... of mechanical reproduction. It considers when and why collectors began to value old shaman paintings as art and how protocols for shaman paintings as magical things sometimes abetted their transmission to the art market. Drawing on the work of Alfred Gell and Bruno Latour, it takes on the slippery question...