A young Indian boy with a parasitic headless attachment. Photograph, 18--.
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- 1800-1899
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- 33506i
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The Indian child with the parasitic twin is probably the boy known as "Laloo" (Lalloo). If so, the parasite was masculine with a penis but no testicles. It contained intestines but the anus was imperforate. Laloo was a participant in a protest meeting at Barnum's where the people exhibited asked to be known as "prodigies" rather than "freaks"
Publication/Creation
1800-1899
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 14.4 x 10.2 cm
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Wellcome Collection 33506i
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