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...Hiva Oa's tiny main town of Atuona is where you'll find the Paul Gauguin Cultural Center, tel: (689) 927 897, a museum that opened in 2003 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his death. Galleries are adorned with reproductions of Gauguin's work and writings from his famous Tahitian period. Full-figured island women in bright colors glow from the muted walls. The rooms are themed around Gauguin's quotes such as "escaping to reach art" and "becoming part of a primitive culture...
...Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk of "Bloody Hiva-oa" for all the world, and lies now in an unknown grave overlooking the Bay of Atuona...
...Brien's story of his visit among the child-like cannibals in the vale of Atuona, under the peak of Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
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