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 125:
Margaret Mead Bulletins Life in New Guinea 1938
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Margaret Mead Bulletins Life in New Guinea 1938
Margaret Mead's Bulletins describing her (personal) life with Gregory Bateson in New Guinea written in May, June, and August 1938.
Bulletins were forwarded to Louis Pierre Ledoux by Margaret Mead's mother., upon instruction. Letters from Margaret Mead's mother includes references to phone calls from Mead and Bateson, and well-being of Eleanor and Douglas L. Oliver (in Bougainville).
Original carbon copy typewritten on onion paper., some with original ink handwritten corrections.
Date: 1938
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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