Buell Halvor Quain (May 31, 1912 – August 2, 1939) was an 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 mystery surrounding his death by suicide was the subject of Brazilian author Bernardo Carvalho's 2002 novel Nine Nights.
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