More Photographic Evidence of The Zhangzhou Kid
Amidst frantic translation on the Haghut-Kierkel manuscripts during a seminar on ven archaeology, one of our staff (who shall remain unidentified for their own safety) unearthed the following image on the last page of a dog-eared and tattered text chronicling the various misdeeds of a pint-sized desperado known as The Zhangzhou Kid.
The photograph is reported to have been taken inside Nasty Jack's Saloon in either 1876 or 1877. The identity of the other two people in the photograph is less obvious, but the woman is certainly the infamous Doctor Snake. This means that the man is probably Brother Tusk in spite of his accouterments--the lawman's badge on his jacket renders such an identification purely conjectural, but it is difficult to imagine who else the man might be. (Doctor Snake and Brother Tusk were the Zhangzhao Kid's constant companions during her career.)
Unfortunately, the text is a third-hand source at best, compiled mostly from contemporary newspaper accounts which current research has shown to be faulty when not outright contradicted by extant evidence.
A more reliable source is a monograph on the Kid herself (whose gender and ethnicity rather make her stand out among the ne'er-do-wells of Skagit and Whatcom Territories). It clearly describes her sartorial choices as being a melange of Chinese and Western fashions, as shown in this photo from the Fairhaven Chronicle morgue. The original was unpublished by the paper and lay forlorn and undiscovered until a graduate student stumbled across it while cross-checking the beetroot production statistics for the late 1890's.
As our present responsibility is the relatively complicated excavation of the ven sites of the upper Skagit River valley and the Snohomish Massif, we have reluctantly forwarded all the pertaining documentation to the appropriate department for review and further research when resources and time permit.
The photograph is reported to have been taken inside Nasty Jack's Saloon in either 1876 or 1877. The identity of the other two people in the photograph is less obvious, but the woman is certainly the infamous Doctor Snake. This means that the man is probably Brother Tusk in spite of his accouterments--the lawman's badge on his jacket renders such an identification purely conjectural, but it is difficult to imagine who else the man might be. (Doctor Snake and Brother Tusk were the Zhangzhao Kid's constant companions during her career.)
Unfortunately, the text is a third-hand source at best, compiled mostly from contemporary newspaper accounts which current research has shown to be faulty when not outright contradicted by extant evidence.
A more reliable source is a monograph on the Kid herself (whose gender and ethnicity rather make her stand out among the ne'er-do-wells of Skagit and Whatcom Territories). It clearly describes her sartorial choices as being a melange of Chinese and Western fashions, as shown in this photo from the Fairhaven Chronicle morgue. The original was unpublished by the paper and lay forlorn and undiscovered until a graduate student stumbled across it while cross-checking the beetroot production statistics for the late 1890's.
As our present responsibility is the relatively complicated excavation of the ven sites of the upper Skagit River valley and the Snohomish Massif, we have reluctantly forwarded all the pertaining documentation to the appropriate department for review and further research when resources and time permit.