Word: rio
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Italian--Rotani, 15'--16'--"Se bel rio"; Durante, 1684-1755--"Danza, danza"; Monteverde, 1568-1643 -- "Lasciatemi morire...
Doctor Hamilton Rice '98, of Boston, who has just returned from an eighteen months' trip to the headwaters of the Rio Negro, in Colombia, has presented the Peabody Museum a valuable collection of ethnological material which he obtained from the natives of the region around the upper Uaupes River. The collection includes dance costumes, feather headdresses, rattles, whistles, drums and other paraphernalia used in their dances and ceremonies, blow guns with poisoned arrows, ordinary bows and arrows, ceremonial staffs used for carrying the head of the enemy, and various household objects such as wooden seats, hammocks, baskets...
...held successively the offices of assistant managing editor, managing editor, and president of the CRIMSON, and was an editor of the Bulletin, has risen to distinction in the consular service. He has been Consul at Vladivostok, Siberia, Secretary to the United States Minister, and Vice Deputy Consul-General, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has also held the office of Vice-Consul at Nagasaki, and Kobe, Japan, and later became United States Commercial Agent at Vladivostok...
...expedition will proceed from New York to Rio Janeiro and will remain in Brazil until the rainy season comes on in October. The Brazilian government, through the government survey, has offered facilities for prosecution of the work of the expedition. On the completion of the field work Professor Woodworth will proceed via Buenos Ayres to the coast of Chill for the purpose of investigating shore line changes, leaving Valparaiso in time to reach Cambridge at the end of the leave of absence...
...Lorillard '03, secretary of embassy at Rio de Janeiro...