Title: Untitled [Our cartoon Shulis performers]

Periodical: Quiz

Date: January 29, 1892

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Our cartoon this week gives an idea of the latest development of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The advent of the Shulis African savages renders another visit to the show almost a necessity of such as are students of ethnology. The singing of the Shulis is undoubtedly musical albeit of a somewhat wierd and pliantive sweetness; while certain of their dances (barring the costumes) could with advantage be incorporated in some of our ball programmes, so dignified and graceful both in action and time are the movements. The intelligence of the Elephants as displayed in their performance is a scource of astonishment and wonder to every one; and certainly Nellie is well worthy of a new bright coloured frill to gladden her feminine heart, as a reward for her really too utterly comical and clever efforts to please he[r] audience.

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PERFORMING ELEPHANTS AT THE "WILD WEST."

War Dance.
Music.
An African Chief.
The Band.
Dancing.
The Performing Elephants.
Indian Chief.
Cowboys' Fun.
Mr. Lockhart.

Carter and Pratt, Lithos. and Printers, Glasgow

Title: Untitled [Our cartoon Shulis performers]

Periodical: Quiz

Date: January 29, 1892

Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain

Keywords: Africans American Indians Audiences Dance Drawings and graphics Elephants Ethnic costume Ethnology Indians of North America Indigenous art Indigenous peoples Singers Traveling exhibitions

Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.

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