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Victorian 'ape woman' returns home
MARTIN DURAN AND MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Last updated 16:11 13/02/2013

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HOME AGAIN: Pastrana was displayed in the US, Europe
and Russia during her short life.


An indigenous Mexican woman put on display in Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition that covered her face in thick hair was buried in her home state on Tuesday in a ceremony that ends one of the best-known episodes from an era when human bodies were treated as collectible specimens.

With her hairy face and body, jutting jaw and other deformities, Julia Pastrana became known as the ‘‘ape woman’’ after she left the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa in 1854, when she was 20, and was taken around the United States by showman Theodore Lent, according to a Norwegian commission that studied her case.

She sang and danced for paying audiences, becoming a sensation who also toured Europe and Russia. She and Lent married and had a son, but she developed a fever related to complications from childbirth, and died along with her baby in 1860 in Moscow.

Her remains ended up at the University of Oslo, Norway. After government and private requests to return her body, the university shipped her remains to the state of Sinaloa, where they were laid to rest.

...more at link
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/8298981 ... turns-home

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