The title of this work is taken from a name Paul Gauguin gave to a series of carvings that he did while he was living in Tahiti in the last years of his life. It means "savage trinkets". While I recognize that the French is more descriptive of his economic motivations, which was to make little artistic souvenirs to be sold to the tourists who visited the island, these are done in honor of his artistic intentions, which was to make work drawn purely from Gauguin's imagination. Regrettably for Gauguin, he sold very few of them, but perhaps the internet can help me where it could not help him.