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 52:
Ledoux's TNG-9 Photos, Enlargements, and Rolls
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Ledoux's TNG-9 Photos, Enlargements, and Rolls
Ledoux's TNG-9 Photos, Enlargements, and Contact Sheet Roll
Includes:
32 - 5" x 7" Enlargements
33 - 2.5" x 3..75"
1 - Contact Roll
Includes Photos of Territory New Guinea Kaup People(TNG) Roll 9 F of the village, people, children, beach, landscape, canoe, fishing with nets, swimming, children with headdresses, body ornaments, ceremony, neck ornaments, jewelry, and hand drum.
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
