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 91:
Murik Basket Bag, with Handles
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Murik Basket Bag, with Handles
Basket bag with handles, and fibrous tufts at corners, intricate multi-colored (grey, beige, red) weave design.
Similar items described as carrying bags to be worn over the shoulder or arm gifted by Louis Pierre Ledoux to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (36-105-70/388), and the American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9018).
Locale: Kaup, Murik Lakes, Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Material: Plant fiber, pigment
Date: circa 1900
Dimensions: 18" x 24"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
Similar items:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (36-105-70/388)
https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/5/title-desc?t:state:flow=8d69fbdf-eb8d-4acb-8afe-30 5030b8cd2c
American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9018)
https://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/common/image_dup.cfm?catno=80%2E0%2F%209018
