the Wild Men of Borneo
RETARDED
DID YOU KNOW   Betty Green was the original Koo Koo the Bird Girl.  She was an avid autograph colector whose sole reason for appearing in "Freaks" was to get MGM star Ronald Coleman's autograph
OR SAID TO BE
1) Hiram and Barney (Elijah) Davis / Waino and Plutano / Wano / Plutanor / the Wild Men of Borneo
2)
William Henry Johnson / Jackson / William Henry Garfield Johnston / Zip / George Zip
3) Minnie Woolsey /
Cuckoo / Koo-Koo, the Bird Girl / Minnie Ha-Ha / the Blind Girl from Mars
3A)
Elizabeth "Betty" Green / the Stork Woman / Koo-Koo, the Bird Girl
4) Franz Taaibosch / Taibosh /
Clicko / Klikko
5)
Athelia, the Monkey Girl from Yucatan / Althea / Thalia
6)
Schlitzie / Slitzy / Schlitze / Slitzie / Schlitze the Aztec / Simon Metz?
7) Maximo and Bartola / Bartolo / Maximo Valdez Nunez and Bartola Velasquez /
the Aztec Lilliputians
8) Jenny Lee, Elvira and Clayton Snow /
Zippo and Flippo / Pip and Flip / Pipo and Zipo / Flip and Zipo / Pip and Flit / Pinheads from Peru
9)
Moko, the Missing Link
10) Gondio Roe and Lukshana Bai /
Gondio and Apexia / Godina / Gondo / Gondio = "A-Go"? / Gondio, the Boy with the Monkey's Head
11)
Hoomio and Iola, the Australian Wild Children / Tom and Hettie / Hattie
12) George and Willie Muse /
Ambassadors from Mars / Eko-Iko, the Ecuadorian Cannibals
13) Gertie, the Pinhead
14) Geko and Francis Estic /
the Estics / Hutty and Tain / Hattie and Tain
15)
Aurora and Natali (Natalia), the Aztec Ladies
16) Effie, Rosie, Nettie and Willie House / Effie, Lizzie, Georgie and Nettie /
Pigmys from Abbyssinnia
17) Julius Graubart
18)
the Aztec Girls
19)
the Ituri Pygmies
20)
Wild Rose / Rosi / the Monkey Girl from Yucatan
21) Ickey
22)
Assra, the Amazing Dwarf Pinhead
23)
Kaki and Koto, the Zanzibar Twins
24)
Johnnie, the Mexican Wild Boy
25)
Tik-Tak (see photo below)
26)
Delphi
27)
Congo
28)
Illy and Zambezi
29)
Ilikuluin and Zanbezi
30)
Bobo and Kiki
31)
Kiko and Sula / Sulu / Zib and Issit / Izzit
32) George (Stahl), the Wild Man of Mexico
33) Gora and Ara
34) A-Go, the Mexican Wonder
35) Chang, the Pin Head Chinese
the House kids
"Being mentally retarded or microcephalic did not make the people discussed here freaks.  How we view people with disabilities has less to do with what they are physiologically than with who we are culturally.  Understanding the "freak show" can help us not to confuse the role a person plays with who that person really is." -  Robert Bogdan in Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit