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 123:
Signed Note from Margaret Mead to Ledoux
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Signed Note from Margaret Mead to Ledoux
Original note written and signed by Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux and copy of Louis Pierre Ledoux's 'Mad Dream'
Margaret Mead responds to Louis Pierre Ledoux's sharing of an idea for a 'Speakeasy' in New York City. The idea is entitled "Chez Toi: A Mad Dream, Engendered During a Sleepless Night"
Date: 1930's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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