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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Miscellaneous Ledoux Documents, Articles and Poem
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Miscellaneous Ledoux Documents, Articles and Poem
Miscellaneous Ledoux Documents, articles, poem, syphilis test, Fishing with the Cormorant in China, Magazine cover, and Japan (The Spell of Java Lingers).
Includes a 1937 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health diagnostic test result, and articles clippings of South American expeditions, etc. Newspaper articles from 1935-1936 from the Andes Amazon expedition with John Ohman, Captain Eric E Loch and George Brun (France), A Typed Poem named "A Fragment" signed Ardmore 1902, Fishing with the Cormorant in China pamphlet from 1926, Magazine cover with painted flowers, and Japan (The Spell of Java Lingers).
Date: 1930's
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
