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THBMurik Basket Bag, with Handles
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LiveNov 16, 2021
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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Basket bag with handles, and fibrous tufts at corners, intricate multi-colored (grey, beige, red) weave design.
Similar items described as carrying bags to be worn over the shoulder or arm gifted by Louis Pierre Ledoux to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (36-105-70/388), and the American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9018).
Locale: Kaup, Murik Lakes, Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Material: Plant fiber, pigment
Date: circa 1900
Dimensions: 18" x 24"Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
Similar items:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (36-105-70/388)https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/5/title-desc?t:state:flow=8d69fbdf-eb8d-4acb-8afe-305030b8cd2c
American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9018)
https://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/common/image_dup.cfm?catno=80%2E0%2F%209018
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