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The band--"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast".
Hand-colored photographic print on stereo card (stereograph, albumen) [Photo by Eugene Haines].

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Mike, the headless chicken
In 1945. Lloyd Olsen, a farmer from Colorado in the United States, cut off the head of a rooster called Mike with the intention of eating him for dinner. However, Mike didn't die. He lived for another 18 months, travelling as an attraction from fair to fair in the company of other natural phenomena, such as a two-headed calf. [photo: Bob Landry]

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Mike, the headless chicken

In 1945. Lloyd Olsen, a farmer from Colorado in the United States, cut off the head of a rooster called Mike with the intention of eating him for dinner. However, Mike didn't die. He lived for another 18 months, travelling as an attraction from fair to fair in the company of other natural phenomena, such as a two-headed calf.

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A performer playing El Toro in a Matachines dance, Monticello, New Mexico, 1909. “Monticello Church Festival,” Henry A. Schmidt Pictorial Collection 000-179-0677. (Photo by Henry A. Schmidt; courtesy of the Special Collections and Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico Libraries)

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Aby Warburg, « Kachina dancers, Hopi Indians rain maker », Shongopavi pueblo, 1900.

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Hopi man with painted face and body and snake in mouth, Arizona, c.1924.

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Group portrait of dancing bear, trainer, and children at Floria Beach, Istanbul, Turkey, 1915 [Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress)]

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Chief Shakes and another Nanya’a’yi chief in dance costumes, Wrangell (Southeast Alaska),1895.
The man in the doorway wears a complete brown bear skin. Chief Shakes wears the “bear’s ears” headdress and a tunic ornamented with halitosis shell to represent bear’s head, and holds the “Killerwhale Cane”.
Unknown photographer

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Hamatsa ritualist (British Coluimbia), 1914
"Hamatsa emerging from the woods--Koskimo" "Hamatsa shaman, three-quarter length portrait, seated on ground in front of tree, facing front, possessed by supernatural power after having spent several days in the woods as part of an initiation ritual."
Photo: Edward S. Curtis

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