(13 Feb 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Hearse carrying body of Julia Pastrana arriving at church where ceremony being held in her memory
2. Men lifting coffin out of hearse
3. Men carrying coffin into memorial ceremony to applause from audience
4. Wide of stage displaying coffin and flower arrangements
5. Various of coffin on display
6. Wide of crowd at memorial
7. Wide of official on stage addressing crowd
8. Close up of coffin
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Laura Anderson Barbata, Visual Artist:
"I felt Julia needed to recover her dignity, her place in history and our memory."
10. Wide of women holding banner reading: (Spanish) "For the dignity of Sinaloan and Mexican Women."
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Rios Estavillo, Sinaloa State Humans Rights Commission spokesman:
"This is an act of justice to the human being. This is an act of dignity towards a person, independently of her appearance, her race or gender. We all are the same under the law."
12. Various of church where ceremony in memory of Julia Pastrana took place
STORYLINE
After 150 years in a research facility in Norway the remains of an indigenous Mexican woman put on display in Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition have been buried in her home state of Sinaloa.
With her hairy face and body, jutting jaw and other deformities, Julia Pastrana became known as "ape woman" after she was taken to the U.S. by showman Theodore Lent in 1854, when she was 20.
After government and private requests to return her body, the university shipped her remains to the state of Sinaloa, where they were laid to rest Tuesday afternoon.
"This is an act of justice to the human being. This is an act of dignity towards a person, independently of her appearance, her race or gender. We all are the same under the law," said Sinaloa State Humans Rights Commission spokesman Jose Rios Estavillo.
The ceremony ends one of the best-known episodes from an era when human bodies were treated as collectible specimens.
Pastrana sang and danced for paying audiences, becoming a sensation who also toured Europe and Russia.
She and Lent married and had a son, but she developed a fever related to complications from childbirth, and died along with her baby in 1860 in Moscow.
Her remains ended up at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Her return home from an Oslo research institute was in part possible thanks to the efforts of visual artist Laura Anderson Barbata.
Barbata, who was born in Mexico City and grew up in Sinaloa, campaigned for years for the return of Pastrana's body to Sinaloa.
"I felt Julia needed to recover her dignity, her place in history and our memory," said Barbata.
After a Roman Catholic Mass in a local church, Pastrana's coffin was carried to the town cemetery and buried as a band played traditional music.
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