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 126:
Margaret Mead's Comments on Ledoux's Manuscript
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Margaret Mead's Comments on Ledoux's Manuscript
Margaret Mead's general and detailed comments on Louis Pierre Ledoux's manuscript (lot # 108), and also her and husband Gregory Bateson's comments on Murik social structure.
Includes original typewritten and carbon copy pages, written in part during Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's return journey from the Sepik in Wewak.
Date: 1930's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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