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THBMargaret Mead -Reo F. Fortune equipment list notes
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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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Margaret Mead / Reo F. Fortune equipment list and notes on the Murik
1927 Equipment List used by R F. Fortune, and Notes written by Margaret Mead and husband R. F. Fortune regarding their 1932-1933 expedition to New Guinea.
The 1927 Equipment List includes equipment purchased by R. F. Fortune ahead of his expedition to New Guinea, from John Edington & Co. in London.
The Notes cover topics encountered in the field in New Guinea including medicine, minimum equipment, food, relations with government and other "whites", how to collect materials / curios, language, how to build a house, things to do first after arrival, etc., and even local nicknames for anthropologists such as Gregory Bateson "Long Fellow Master i Stop Along Big Sepik", and R.F. Fortune and Margaret Mead "Master Two Fello Mrs I Stop Along Bush Belong Dakuar" and "Now Two Fello Mrs I Stop Along Sepik. Before Two Fellow Stop Along Manus. One time Along all boy Belong Soda Water."
Date: 1930's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection - Buyer's Premium
