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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LOT 107:
Diary Notebooks and Field Notes Feb - July 1936
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Diary Notebooks and Field Notes Feb - July 1936
The personal archive of Louis-Pierre Ledoux (1912-2001), who was the second person (and first trained anthropologist) to record significant data on the Murik people of Papua New Guinea. The archive contains his field journals from a six-month stay in a Murik village, along with a wealth of associated material.
21 Books Total - 4 Diary notebooks and 17 field notes of Louis Pierre Ledoux's time in Kaup, from Feb. - July 1936, including original handwritten real-time on site notes.
4 Purple Diary's Books each include two different topics per book with handwritten notes (not completely filled). 18cm x 22cm
Sing Sings (front) and Legends (back)(dos-a-dos)
Scarification, Tattoos, Paint (front) and Girl's Ceremonies (back)(dos-a-dos)
Medicine and Illness (front) and Musical Instruments - General Food Tambu Machinery (back)(dos-a-dos)
Outrigger Canoes (front) and House Building Ceremonies (back)(dos-a-dos)
2 Small Brown Notepads with what appears to be lists or items or supplies 7.5cm x 12.5cm
17 Green Field notebooks - All Handwritten (not completely filled) 20cm x 12cm
6 Books appear to be Kaup Diaries from February to July 1936.
11 Additional Green Books on the following topics: Sandap, Murik, Karau, Mendam #1, Mendam #2, Reading Notes, Das Kirchebuch (listing names of tribe members with birth, marriage and death dates)., Colection (i.e. artefacts collected), Questions to be Asked, Sex, and Language.
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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