Giovanni Podenzana

Life

Italian naturalist, explorer and ethnographer. Professor Giovanni Podenzana was curator of an ethnographic museum in La Spezia, Italy (now named after him), and collected thousands of items related to anthropology in Australia, New Guinea and Japan. He also collected plants and insects in Australia in the early 1890s, and visited Bishop Museum in Hawaii in 1916.

References

Catalogue Exotica

 

Photos from Catalogue Exotica

Photo p. 65

Photo p. 15

 

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