Julia Pastrana (1834-1860)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/67011
- Name (English)
- Julia Pastrana
- Short name
- Julia Pastrana
- Year of birth
- 1834
- Year of death
- 1860
- Short Description
- "Julia Pastrana (1834 – 25 March 1860) was a performer and singer during the 19th century. Pastrana, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was born in 1834, somewhere in the state of Sinaloa. She was born with a genetic condition, hypertrichosis terminalis (or generalized hypertrichosis lanuginosa); her face and body were covered with straight black hair. Her ears and nose were unusually large, and her teeth were irregular. The latter condition was caused by a rare disease, undiagnosed in her lifetime, Gingival hyperplasia, which thickened her lips and gums." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.11.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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Tafel 1258, Bild 1, Miss Julia Pastrana (Pastraina) und Zenora Pastraina
Julia Pastrana ("Die...
Object information
Image: Stadtmuseum Dresden - RR-F
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