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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
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:
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THE UBANGI SAVAGES POSITIVELY APPEAR IN
THE MAIN PERFORMANCES OF THE
BIG SHOW |
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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