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Yellow Bear

A Native American chief exhibited by Barnum.

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First appearance: xxxiv menagerie and museum memoranda

Yellow Bear shows up with force in More About the Museum. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Kiowa chief described as a sly, treacherous savage; exhibited on stage and given a chain-mail shirt.
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See Yellow Bear in xxxiv menagerie and museum memoranda