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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Ledoux's 1930s Shipping Export Documents
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Ledoux's 1930s Shipping Export Documents
Louis Pierre Ledoux custom form for shipping - 5 Documents. Declaration of New Guinea Antiquities and Permit for Export; Ledoux's cargo and passenger chit dated 8 July 1936 departing Boram (New Guinea) onboard the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen ship SS Friderun; Completed and signed form dated 7 August 1936 from Customs Agents Hammon, Board, & Co. of Sydney.
The SS Friderun was owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen, Germany, from 1922-1940 when it was captured by the Dutch off the coast of Celebes (Sulawesi, Indonesia). It was renamed the Moerendong and sunk during WWII by the Japanese in 1942.
White Star Line letterhead, the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (British) they also owned the Atlantic, Titanic, etc. The M.V. "Georgic" was last of 2 ships in 1932.
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1930's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
