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In 1907, the 25-year-old Pablo Picasso visited Paris’s Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro (now the Museum of Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac)—“by chance,” he later said. As period photographs reveal, the museum was a jumble of large vitrines packed with masks, small sculptures, pottery, skeletons and mummified bodies, plus…