Bear Girls
"Target & Indian girls"
"Bear Girl in forest & Bear Girl in bedroom"
"Grasses & Doe skin"
"Dandelion & Polar Bear"
"Girl with fur & Tepee rack"
"Wisent & Bathing sheep"
"Gesa & Tepee"
"Indian tree & Girls in the woods"
"Deshina & Huski"
"Dark branches & Lili"
"Seawater & Amalia"
"Birch forest & Ear of deer"
"Girl in evening dress & Dark trees"
"Bear target & Cuddly toys"
"Bear & Fireworks"
"Girl with fur in woods & Sleeping bear"
"Autumn meadow & Mia"
"Superman & Stork"
"Bloody shirt & Plumes in grass"
"Sleeping girl & Feather on red soil"
"Marlene & Wolves"
"Branches on a tree & Ladder in a tree"
"Lilli & Shed"
"Indian hut & Shack with weathercock"
"Daya and Mila & Scull"
"Maya & Tepee"
"Marlene & Clouds ante mountains"
"Fire & Hunters vest"
"Light from below 1 & Light from below 2"
"Lina & Autumn scrub"
"Red berries in thicket & Severed hooves"
"Rails & Girl on bicycle"
"Thicket & Seaweed vegetation"
"Western decoration & Michelle"
"Bird boxes & Electric fence"
"Lotti & Tepee village"
"Indian shadow & Hair on red carpet"
"Blackboard & Girl with bandaged eyes"
"Red rock & Green fabric"
"Footprints and Paw prints & Little plastic hand"
"Eggs & Fur balls"
"Bedroom & Puppet"
"Girl with beard & Girl with pink wig"
"Fox & Mia Wallace"
"Camouflage net & Sandbag"
"Recumbent eight & Bear's Portrait"
Bear Girls
Somewhere in North America or Canada, there is a tribe of Indians who dress their pubescent girls in large bearskins. The girls all live together just outside the village, the bearskins protecting them from the gaze of the adults and boys. They are even advised to be particularly slow and clumsy, to mimic the movement of a bear. This protected environment allows them to mature in a carefree and undisturbed way. They themselves determine the moment when they finally throw off their bearskin, and become part of the community of grown-up women. Girls of this tribe may even decide to become braves. Not many do, but some have.
When I recently told a friend about this, she was certain she had heard of this tribe before.
As it happens, I made it all up myself.