| ABOMA |
| THE AMAZONIAN GIANTESS |
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| According to her bio pamphlet which she sold at her shows Abomah appeared in 1900 in Liverpool with Reynold's Waxworks and Exhibition; 1901 & '02 at the Alhambra, Blackpool; 1903 with Reynold's and later touring Australia; seasons 1904 - 08, touring New Zealand; 1909, South American tour; 1910- 11, European tour; 1912- 13, Reynold's Waxworks; 1914, touring English variety halls; 1917 Dreamland at Coney Island and Cuba; 1918 with Barnum and Bailey |
| (author's research) In 1920 she was at Dreamland and the World's Museum and in 1921again at the World's Museum in Philadelphia when it was announced that she was going to sail for Paris for a three months engagement. She was back at Coney Island in 1923 and the following year appeared at Pete Kortes World's Museum in Los Angeles. She was last seen with Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey in 1925. |
| On Saturday evening, at the Alhambra Theatre, Abomah, the Amazon giantess, made her first appearance before a Dunedin audience after a general tour of Otago and Southland. She stands 7ft 6in in height, is a full-blooded negress, and was born in America. She is well-proportioned, and, needless to say, she completely dwarfs any average man or woman, and the expectations of the audience were more than realised, for the "tallest lady" was everything that had been announced about her, and she duly defied anyone in the audience to try conclusions with her in stretch of hand. Abomah, in addition to posing, contributed some songs, chief of which was "My Honolulu Bell," and she rendered this item in a pleasing voice and with good effect. - Otago [NZ] Witness, 1904 |
| New Zealand. Abomah had a very expensive and extensive wardrobe. Having an attendant invoked a sense of royalty. |
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| Biography Pamphlet sold at Coney Island, 1923 |
| "Mme. Aboma, the giantess, was taken in to dinner (at Stauch's, orgainized by the Dreamland Social Club) by the Baron Paucci, the smallest man alive. The baron was every inch - every 30 inches of him - the noble man as he escorted the demure Aboma, eight feet of petite, mulatto, femininity, to the table." - Aug 1923 |
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| Postmarked 1903 |