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 108:
Ledoux Manuscript, Field Diary, Notes
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Ledoux Manuscript, Field Diary, Notes
The Manuscript includes introductory pages, acknowledgements, prefaces, as well as chapters, diaries, and topic-based pages of Louis Pierre Ledoux's time amongst the Murik of Kaup and Mendam in the Murik Lakes region of the lower Sepik River.
Box A: Intro, Acknowledgements
Box B: Chapter 1 Introduction
Box C: Chapters 1 - 6
Box D: Legends
Box E: Items Collected
Box F1: Diary Feb. 3 - Jun. 9, 1936
Box F2:Diary Jun. 10 - 23, 1936
Box G: Mendam Notes
Box H: Miscellaneous
Box I: Kaup Topics
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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