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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Ledoux's TNG-10 Photos, Enlargements, and Roll
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Ledoux's TNG-10 Photos, Enlargements, and Roll
Ledoux's TNG- 10 Photos, Enlargements, and Contact Sheet Roll
Includes:
34 - 5" x 7" Enlargements
27 - 2.5" x 3..75"
2 - Contact Rolls
Includes Photos of Territory New Guinea (TNG) Roll 10 of the village, people, children, basket making, body ornaments, houses, grass skirts, dying process for baskets, canoes, and beach.
This also includes a photo of Sakara, (Parrot Macaw) whom Ledoux explains "My best friend and adopted son.
Date: 1936
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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