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When speaking of the work of Jean Guiart, we think first or even only of his work on Vanuatu and New Caledonia (and his diatribes against his colleagues). We sometimes forget his investment in Tahitian society, especially in the 1960s and 1970s when the projects that would lead to the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands and the Polynesian Center for Human Sciences were underway. This text will summarize what Guiart wrote on this subject, in 1974, on the local "upper-class bourgeoisie", on the "Danielsson affair", on "overly asserted independence positions", on his support for the nationalist leader Pouvanaa, but also on the "failed" way, according to his judgment, in which the local projects of museums and research centers were carried out.