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Fra i pelli-rosse d’America: curiosità etnografiche.

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Very rare only edition of a pamphlet about native peoples of North America by the ethnographer and geographer Grossi. His overview concentrates primarily on funeral rites and dances, on poetry, narrative and songs, of which he cites several examples undoubtedly for the first time translating them into Italian.

OCLC lists 2 copies (Rice and Yale); not in COPAC. See European Review of Native American Studies (1990), vol. 4-6, p. 36.

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