Source
Source: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), Bd. 85, 2. Halbjahr, Nr. 2207 (17. October 1885), p. 387. Reprinted in Eric Ames, Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments. Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, 2008, p. 107.
Abstract
The full caption of this original drawing by Fritz Waibler reads “The Bella Coola Indians from America’s Northwest Coast in the Zoological Garden at Leipzig: A Cannibal Dance.” It shows members of the Bella Coola tribe (also called Nuxalk) who had been recruited in a part of today’s province of British Columbia and toured Germany as part of a Völkerschau. This scene depicts them performing a dance that, according to the caption, was part of a cannibalistic ritual.
“A Cannibal Dance at the Leipzig Zoological Garden” (1885)
Further Reading
Rudolf Virchow, Report from the Special Meeting in the Zoological Garden on November 7, 1880: “Eskimos from Labrador” (1880), published in German History Intersections, https://germanhistory-intersections.org/en/knowledge-and-education/ghis:document-189
Recommended Citation
“A Cannibal Dance at the Leipzig Zoological Garden” (1885),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/forging-an-empire-bismarckian-germany-1866-1890/ghdi:image-5115>
[April 25, 2024].