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THBArticle English translation of Murik ethnographic
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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
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Article and English translation of Murik ethnographic article.
Journal article (original format) of Schmidt, P. Joseph. “Die Ethnographie Der Nor-Papua (Murik-Kaup-Karau) Bei Dallmannhafen, Neu-Guinea.” which translates to "The Ethnography of North Papua" Anthropos, 1924 18/19, no. 4/6, 1923, pages. 700–732, and pages 38-71, and their English translations, presumably handwritten by Louis Pierre Ledoux as well as Douglas L. Oliver.Father Schmidt (SVD) was based in New Guinea in the 1920s through the 1930s. Douglas L. Oliver conducted fieldwork in Bougainville, Solomon Islands in 1938. Ledoux was a 1935 Harvard graduate, and Oliver was a 1934 Harvard graduate, as well as Research Associate at the Peabody Harvard Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology from 1936-1941. Oliver conducted fieldwork in Bougainville, Solomon Islands in 1938. His numerous published works include journal articles, museum papers, and books. Douglas L. Oliver, a personal friend and colleague of Ledoux’s.
Date: 1930's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection - Buyer's Premium
