[PW] Hollow Hairs and Circuses

[Jeffrey Pike]

Patron says as a child, about 30 years ago, she read in National Geographic
about a man who hollowed out a human hair and placed inside it stone
sculptures of circus performers. She has asked if we can "..find out more
about this...". We have tried searches of National Geographic to 1980 on
Infotrac, general Infotrac searches, and Google searches, and we have
browsed the titles in our National Geographic on CD-ROM collection through
the 1960s and 1970s.

In a followup e-mail, we asked the patron if she could provide any more
detail, perhaps including the man's ethnicity or citizenship, and whether
the article was devoted just to him, but she has been unable to supply
additional information.

I frankly doubt the human hair part, and have searched substituting bone for
hair, thinking that would be a more likely medium, but still no results.

Jeffrey Pike
Technology Services Librarian
Groton Public Library
Groton, MA 01450
jpike at gpl.org