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.
פריט 224:
Lower Sepik Body Ornament Boar's Tusk
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נמכר ב: $100
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הערכה :
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עמלת בית המכירות: 28%
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Lower Sepik Body Ornament Boar's Tusk
Used as body ornamentation, boar's tusk chest piece with wood, rattan and rope
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: boar's tusk bone, wood, rattan
Dimensions: W5 x" H8"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection