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TRIBE of MEN and WOMEN
MONSTER - MOUTHED
UBANGI SAVAGES
From Central Africa's Most
Remote and Least - Explored Jungles
The World's Most Weird Living
Humans
Above Pitch Card -
Courtesy of Neil Davis
BROUGHT TO AMERICA THIS SEASON
by the
RINGLING BROS AND BARNUM &
BAILEY CIRCUS
and EXHIBITED EXCLUSIVELY by
the GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Note:
THE UBANGI SAVAGES
POSITIVELY APPEAR IN
THE MAIN PERFORMANCES OF
THE BIG SHOW |
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THE GREATEST EDUCATIONAL
FEATURE OF ALL TIME!
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Perforation of the
lower lip (or less often the upper) for insertion of a
decorative
plug
or other ornament was once widespread among Africans, lowland
South American Indians, the Indians of the northwest North
American coast, and the Inuit (Eskimo). Striking examples
include those of the women of the Mursi and
Sara
tribes of Africa (for a time commonly known as Ubangi, after
the name erroneously applied in P.T. Barnum's publicity),
whose lips were pierced and then stretched slowly over time to
accommodate ever-larger inserts.(Britannica-
Online)
Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey exhibited 13 Ubangi women during the early
1930s. They were brought out of West Africa by Dr Ludwig
Bergonnier.
(Source: Performing Arts Museum Collection)
Barnum's
constructed persona provides a paradigm for reading the
presence of non-whites and non-Western carnival and museum
exhibits, such as female performers from the Congo.
.....................the exhibit exoticized the women's
aesthetic practice of enlarging their lips with captions that
read "mouths and lips as large as those of full-grown
crocodiles!" and "Genuine monster-mouthed Ubangi Savages."
The performers
were renamed. The
**promoters
of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus "resettled" the
performers by christening them "Ubangis" after a district of
Africa because it "had the proper exotic ring"
(Bogdan
194).
**Roland
Butler - coined the word Ubangi.
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