Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

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Here a picture of the wife of a famous south italian bandit
named Ninco Nanco from Basilicate-Lucania .
The band , chief and wife fight against the Savoy soldiers that wanted with lot of violence to conqueer south Italy during the italian '' unification''.
Maria fighted as a man and Ninco was considerated in the region as some kind of Robin Hood,
stealing ( and killing ) lot of soldiers and rich insiders and then helping poor people and priests.