Ethnic Curiosities &

The Curiosity of Ethnicity

~Exotic Humanity On Display~

Feature Article:

Savage Sideshow:

Exhibiting Africans As Freaks

Ani Kauilani's Hawaiians Sideshow
Baartman, Sara "The Hottentot Venus"
Clico 
Burmese Giraffe-Neck Women 
Borneo Dayak Village
Dog-Eating Philipinos 
Esquimos 
Fiji Islanders
"Fiji Jim" (real name Ruto Semm) and Wife Annie [ah38]
Igorots, Dog-Eaters from the Philippines 
Pigmy's From Abbyssinnia [d]
Ubangis
Ytura Pigmies [blk 0-197]
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Exhibiting Prejudice?: Minstrelry
& The Black Sideshow Performer•

[ah] American Heritage 
[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue
[dpm] Daniel P. Mannix
[d] doghouse
[rb] Robert Bogdan 
[kkk] Kunhardt 
[mm] Martin Monestier
m multi-talented, appears in more than one category
•full article needed and/or forthcoming

Real Photo Postcard of The Giraffe-Neck Women as they appeared with Bertram Mills Circus, 1937.