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 197:
Round Band of Rattan and Cloth
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Round Band of Rattan and Cloth
Round band made of rattan and cloth. Such a band may have been used to affix a snake or lizard skin to the opening of a handheld kundu drum, for example lot #147.
Locale: Murik Lakes, Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: rattan, cloth
Dimensions: Diameter 6"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
