Whether originating in Africa or the Pacific, in a remote corner of the Asian steppe or the humid heat of an Amazon rainforest, the four hundred headdresses in Antoine de Galbert’s collection contain an element of the inaccessible and the divine. Instruments of ritual, they border on the supernatural, proclaim the beauty of the ephemeral, and protect against the impenetrable workings of fate. Shown in public for the first time at La maison rouge in 2010, these headdresses submerge us in the unfathomable mysteries of human ingenuity and the poetry of creation.