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Lot 98
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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
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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Original carbon copy letter, dated October 4th 1937, from Louis Pierre Ledoux's father to Bernard Mishkin regarding Mishkin's letter and equipment list sent to Louis Pierre Ledoux.
Bernard Mishkin was, according to Louis Pierre Ledoux's understanding (see lot # 63), an apparent "protege" of Margaret Mead's. Indeed, he received his PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1937 aged 24, 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
