Quain, Buell

Buell Quain
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Name	Quain, Buell Gender: M
Birthname	Buell Halvor Quain
born on	31 May 1912 at 23:53 (= 11:53 PM )
Place	Bismarck, North Dakota, 46n49, 100w47
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	10°21' 24°43 Asc. 02°08'

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Biography

American ethnologist who, after graduating from Columbia University, worked with native peoples in Fiji and Brazil.

He published a total of four books, three of them posthumously: The Iroquois (1937), The Flight of the Chiefs (1942), The Trumai Indians of Central Brazil (1955, with Robert Francis Murphy) and Fijian Village (1970).

The mystery surrounding his death by suicide on August 2, 1939 was the subject of Brazilian author Bernardo Carvalho's 2002 novel Nine Nights.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

• Death by Suicide 2 August 1939
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes Bernardo Carvalho, "Nine Nights" (Random House, 2008), p. 16, which states data from birth certificate.

Categories

• Personal : Death : Suicide

• Vocation : Science : Anthropology (ethnologist)