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Harald Schultz (1909-1966) was a Brazilian anthropologist who dedicated his career to the study of native South American Indians. He worked for the Indian Protection Service in the early 1940s and his research amongst the Umutina of the Upper Paraguay resulted in an acclaimed film, a publication and a collection of artefacts now housed in the Paulista Museum in Sao Paulo. In 1947 he was appointed Assistant Ethnologist at the museum where he remained until his death in 1966. His many field trips, amongs the Karaja, Kraho, and numerous other tribes, often made with his wife, Wilma Chiara, enriched the collections of his own museum and others in Brazil. His acclaimed book, "Hombu: Indian Life in the Brazilian Jungle", was published in 1962 and he was also largely responsible for the "Revista do Museu Paulista", an essential publication for students of Brazilian Indian life and culture.

Alicia Rossi was born in Buenos Aires in 1928 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Art there in 1948. She moved to Sao Paulo in 1963 and studied engraving. In 1973 she published "Coisas do Brazil" (Things of Brazil). Since then she has had several solo exhibitions and her works are held in museums such as MASP (Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo).

Page from her sketchbooks are shown on the previous pages of this catalogue.