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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