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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1932 Map of British Solomon Islands, published by the Lands Department, Tulagi, 5th February 1932. 66 cm x ...
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1932 Map of British Solomon Islands, published by the Lands Department, Tulagi, 5th February 1932.
66 cm x 36.5 cm has tears and holes
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
