IMAGE
Winter Show :First time here. The Pigmy woman from Africa. The world's smallest female. She is only 28 inches high, 27 years old. Children love Chilliwingi. Direction Tasman Bradley's Amusements. [1929]
- Date
- 1929
- By
- Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978; Cabot, Beatrice Eliza, 1894-1981; Tolan Print
- Reference
- Eph-B-CABOT-Variety-1929-01
- Description
Arrangement of text with two full-length portrait of Chilliwingi in native costume, one holding a spear. Printed by Tolan Print, Wellington.
Chilliwingi was managed and exhibited by Dave Meekin.
Date confirmed by Evening Post, 13 July 1929, Page 7
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph on yellow sheet, 268 x 140 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: File print available in Ephemera Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976] / [Theatre programmes collected by Charles Cabot, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Ireland. 1900-1929].
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Advertisements, Posters, Portraits, Photolithograph on yellow sheet, 268 x 140 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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