November 7th, 2011
Zoom ihatemusic1943: Julia Pastrana, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was born in 1834. She had hypertrichosis terminalis; that is, her face and body were covered with straight black hair. Her ears and nose were unusually large and her teeth were irregular. Theodore Lent discovered and purchased her. Lent taught her to dance and play music and took her on a worldwide tour. She also learned to read and write in three languages. They married and she became pregnant. During a tour in Moscow, Pastrana gave birth to a baby with features similar to her own. The child survived only two days, and Pastrana died of post-birth complications five days later. Lent did not abandon the tour; had his wife and son mummified and displayed them in a glass cabinet. In February of 1990, a Norwegian journalist discovered the mummy in the basement of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Oslo, Norway.

ihatemusic1943:

Julia Pastrana, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was born in 1834. She had hypertrichosis terminalis; that is, her face and body were covered with straight black hair. Her ears and nose were unusually large and her teeth were irregular.

Theodore Lent discovered and purchased her. Lent taught her to dance and play music and took her on a worldwide tour. She also learned to read and write in three languages. They married and she became pregnant.

During a tour in Moscow, Pastrana gave birth to a baby with features similar to her own. The child survived only two days, and Pastrana died of post-birth complications five days later.

Lent did not abandon the tour; had his wife and son mummified and displayed them in a glass cabinet. In February of 1990, a Norwegian journalist discovered the mummy in the basement of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Oslo, Norway.

(Source: topofobia)

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