S. Africans Seek to Bring Home Bones of a Bitter Past; Tribes Say Colonial-Era `Trophies' Don't Belong in European Museum Collections From: The Washington Post | Date: February 7, 1996| Author: Lynne Duke | Copyright 1996 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

In freak shows and circuses, 19th-century Parisians and Londoners gawked at the huge, naked derriere of a woman known to them as the "Hottentot Venus." Her real name was Saartjie Baartman, a woman of remarkably large anatomical features who was lured to England in 1810 from what now is South Africa's Cape region to become the object of curiosity in a Europe fascinated with a place it called the Dark Continent.

In death, which came in 1815 of tuberculosis, the 26-year-old Baartman...

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