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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War Club
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War Club
War club, includes a subtle relief resembling a snake or other long animal along almost the whole length of the club, and a geometric design (perhaps of stylized fish) at the center of the club.
Similar item gifted by Louis Pierre Ledoux in 1936 to the American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9059)
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Wood
Dimensions: H 5' 11" x W 2"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
Similar items:
American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9059)
https://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/common/image_dup.cfm?catno=80%2E0%2F%209059
Giraudeau Tours 2017, attributed to the 1934-36 La Korrigane expedition to the Sepik.
https://www.artkhade.com/object/p4q237Gj