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Sinaloa de Leyva, Mexico - A Mexican indigenous woman who was exhibited in Europe during the Victorian era because of his rare genetic condition for which her face was covered with thick hair, was buried in his home state on Wednesday in a ceremony that concluded with a well-known episode of an era in which human bodies were treated as specimens collectibles.
With her face and hairy body, his mandibular prognathism and other deformities, Julia Pastrana was known as the "monkey woman" after he left his home state of Sinaloa, in 1854, at age 20, and was brought about by Theodore U.S. Lent, who was devoted to the show, according to the Norwegian committee that studied the case.
She sang and danced for people who paid to see it, becoming a sensation that also toured Europe and Russia. She and Lent married and had a son, however, she suffered a fever-related complications in childbirth and died with her baby in 1860 in Moscow. His remains ended up at the University of Oslo, Norway. After private and government requests to return the body, the university sent the remains to the state of Sinaloa, where they were buried.
"Julia Pastrana has returned home," said Mayor hometown Sinaloa de Leyva, Saul Rubio Ayala. "Julia has been reborn among us, that a woman never becomes a business object".
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