Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition
In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, recent Harvard University graduate, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people.
The results of his self-funded expedition is an extraordinary collection of hundreds of artifacts, photographs, manuscripts, diaries, and letters left untouched for 85 years.
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Articles written by Margaret Mead
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Articles written by Margaret Mead
Articles and notes written by Margaret Mead that would help Louis Pierre Ledoux in the field.
1930 "Melanesian Middlemen" Natural History: The Journal of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol XXX, No. 2, page 115-130;
1931 "Chapter 2, The Primitive Child" A Handbook of Child Psychology Clark Univ. Press, pg. 669-687;
1931 "Living with the Natives of Melanesia" Natural History; The Journal of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXI, No. 1, page 62-74;
1934 "How the Papuan Plans his Dinner" Natural History: The Journal of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, page. 377-388. Also includes a typewritten note on how to deal with Prickly Heat.
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
