Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lex Gielgud (1881-1917)
In 1909 Henry L Gielgud travelled to the Putumayo region as an accountant
for the Peruvian Amazon Company. In 1910 he was part of a British team
which exposed the company’s torture and slavery of their Huitoto
and Bora work force.
During his time in South America, Gielgud amassed a large collection
of indigenous artefacts which was later acquired by Liverpool Museum (now
World Museum Liverpool).
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Part of the Basins of the Rivers Putumayo and Caquetá, showing the rivers
Cara-paraná, Igara-Paraná and Cahuinarí
