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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Shipping Document for Stuffed Head to Harvard
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Shipping Document for Stuffed Head to Harvard
Shipping Document for Stuffed Head to Peabody Museum Harvard.
1936 Matson Line shipping document and envelope from The Oceanic Steamship Company, for the transport of cargo consigned to Louis Pierre Ledoux on board the Mariposa, shipped by Burns Philp & Co., Ltd.
Cargo described "1 case stuffed head" marked Peabody Museum Harvard. Envelope Dated September 14 1936
Date: 1930's
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection