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Margaret Mead -Reo F. Fortune equipment list notes - Margaret Mead / Reo F. Fortune equipment list and notes on the Murik 1927 Equipment List used by R F. Fortune, and Notes written by Margaret Mead and husband R. F. Fortune regarding their 1932-1933 expedition to New Guinea. The 1927 Equipment List includes equipment purchased by R. F. Fortune ahead of his expedition to New Guinea, from John Edington & Co. in London. The Notes cover topics encountered in the field in New Guinea including medicine, minimum equipment, food, relations with government and other ”whites”, how to collect materials / curios, language, how to build a house, things to do first after arrival, etc., and even local nicknames for anthropologists such as Gregory Bateson ”Long Fellow Master i Stop Along Big Sepik”, and R.F. Fortune and Margaret Mead ”Master Two Fello Mrs I Stop Along Bush Belong Dakuar” and ”Now Two Fello Mrs I Stop Along Sepik. Before Two Fellow Stop Along Manus. One time Along all boy Belong Soda Water.” Date: 1930's Material: Paperwork Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection