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 collection of negatives, contact sheets and 35mm colored slides of Ledoux's exploits around the United States such as hiking in New Jersey, Zion National Park and Death Valley. Also featured is his family at home. Circa 1943-1976.