Set Reminder2021-11-16 12:00:002021-11-16 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Louis Pierre Ledoux’s Papua New Guinea Collection https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/willow-auction-house/louis-pierre-ledoux-s-papua-new-guinea-collection-7667 Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition
In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people.Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
A catalog of the Dr. Hans Himmelheber African Collection, The Weyhe Gallery , New York 1940. Photos, descriptions and prices for masks, statues and artifacts from the regions of: Ivory Coast, Gabun, Cameroon, Bakuba, Bapende, Bena Lulua, Bayaka, Batshiok, and the Bena Biomba. On the verso is a handwritten note to Ledoux from his mother. 9" L x 6" W. Foxing to the edges of the paper.