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 30:
Ledoux's TNG-4 Photos, Enlargements, and Roll
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Ledoux's TNG-4 Photos, Enlargements, and Roll
Ledoux's TNG-4 Photos, Enlargements, and Contact Sheet Roll
Includes:
30 - 5" x 7" Enlargements
23 - 2.5" x 3..75"
2 - Contact Roll
Includes Photos of Territory New Guinea (TNG) Roll 2 of the village, people, children, large baskets, bowl, pigs, bag with pig, hand drum, baskets, body ornaments, children with body ornaments, grass skirts, boars tusks, bowls, ceremonies, boats, and beach.
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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