The Head Carry
Posted By thecircusblog on March 31, 2009
Here is a perfect photo of the “head carry” performed by Cheerful Gardener in the backyard of the Hagenbeck and Wallace Circus in the early 1930’s. There was the leg carry as well but it was preformed mostly by the women of the circus. In the 1950’s a motion picture called “Elephant Walk.” It was about a plantation owner in India. He moved into a rich land area to plant commercial crops, there by taking it away from the elephants. The story leads to an elephant uprising to take back their land by stampeding and tearing though the plantation and the home of the owner. In one of the scenes, it shows a man being carried by his head…of course to add terror and excitement. The man was Wally Ross and the elephant was Babe. At the present time in the countrysides farming is taking over land in many area’s of India. The same thing is happening to the farms and plantations and they are shooting the elephants to stop their normal grazing migration, which farmers call a rampage. Elephants have to eat and they will do what they have to do to survive. Maybe there are to many of them perhaps the US should lift the embargo on the Asian elephant.
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