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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Leaflets Museum Natural History, Tobacco
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Leaflets Museum Natural History, Tobacco
Three leaflets by Albert B. Lewis, Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 1923 "The Use of Sago in New Guinea";; "1924 "Use of Tobacco in New Guinea and Neighboring Regions"; and 1922 "New Guinea Masks".
A bundle of New Guinea tobacco brought back by Louis Pierre Ledoux in 1936 is also included.
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1930's or earlier
Material: Paperwork, Tobacco
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection