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 228:
Ledoux's TNG-24 Photos, Enlargements, and Rolls
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Ledoux's TNG-24 Photos, Enlargements, and Rolls
Ledoux's TNG-24 Photos, Enlargements, and Contact Sheet
10 - 5" x 7" Enlargements
1 - 2.5" x 3..75"
2 - Contact Rolls
Includes Photos of Territory New Guinea (TNG) Roll 22 of the village, people, children, and grass skirts.
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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