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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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Letter from Louis Pierre Ledoux in Kaup, New Guinea, to Caroline Tennant Kelly in Sydney.
Personal handwritten and signed letter from Louis Pierre Ledoux to anthropologist Caroline Tennant Kelly in Sydney. Caroline Tennant Kelly was an Australian anthropologist, who in the early 1930s played an important role in the history of early Australian anthropology at the University of Sydney. (Letter was presumably later typed and sent to Kelly.)
Dated June 1936, the letter refers to Australian government anthropologist EW Chinnery and his advice for two "Yale" boys "Reed & Whiting" [anthropologists Stephen W. Reed and John W. M. Whiting] possibly doing fieldwork in Wapi (New Guinea); Louis Pierre Ledoux's own health in New Guinea and the start of trading season, his upcoming return to Sydney onboard the "Maniposa", and his letter to a man dubbed "Michigan" [anthropologist Bernard Mishkin] an apparent protege of Margaret Mead's. [Note: The "Yale" boys Reed and Whiting subsequently published their fieldwork: “Kwoma Culture: Report on Field Work in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea.” Oceania, vol. 9, no. 2, 1938, pp. 170–216 amongst others. Bernard Mishkin was, according to Louis Pierre Ledoux's understanding , an apparent "protege" of Margaret Mead's. Indeed, he received his PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1937 aged 24 yrs. after having done fieldwork in the Wapi area on New Guinea in 1936. Bernard Mishkin is the author of the famed book: Rank and Warfare Among the Plains Indians. New York, 1940.]
Date: 1930's
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection - Buyer's Premium
