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 203:
Ledoux's TNG-21 Photos, Enlargements, and Roll
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Ledoux's TNG-21 Photos, Enlargements, and Roll
Ledoux's TNG- 21 Photos, Enlargements, and Contact Sheet Roll
Includes:
28 - 5" x 7" Enlargements
32 - 2.5" x 3..75"
1 - Contact Roll
Includes Photos of Territory New Guinea (TNG) Roll 21 K of the village, people, children, large baskets and bags, village gathering, canoe prow, houses, house building,
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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