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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Ammo cages
I threw this one in here as this is the only photo I have seen of the 1954 paint job. This is a Howard Tibbals photo from the Ringling Museums.
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Bob, I have several others that Bob MacDougall sent me of these "Haitian Primative" paintings. I will scan them and send to you as soon as I can. They were very colorful from what I can tell. I don't have a full color photo of the fronts, however I do have two that show corners of two of the cages. The ones with the whimsical clowns had a black background and multi colored figures. The other paintings, African, Indian, etc. had a yellow background and multi colored figures. I believe the interiors and the bars may have been a color other that white and black. Dom
I performed from 1973 to 1995 with a couple years off in between. I did an aerial cradle act for three years, low wire as a clown, trained llamas, ponies, then lions and tigers for 15 years. I am now a firefighter, a member of the Circus Historical Society and an author of several circus and carnival related subjects.
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Bob,
I have several others that Bob MacDougall sent me of these "Haitian Primative" paintings. I will scan them and send to you as soon as I can. They were very colorful from what I can tell. I don't have a full color photo of the fronts, however I do have two that show corners of two of the cages. The ones with the whimsical clowns had a black background and multi colored figures.
The other paintings, African, Indian, etc. had a yellow background and multi colored figures. I believe the interiors and the bars may have been a color other that white and black.
Dom
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