[Sideshow] [Barnum, P.T. (1810–1891)] Photograph of a Member of the "Holy Family of Burma"Portrait of Mahphoon (also spelled Mah Phoon), a female member of a Burmese family with hereditary cases of hypertrichosisexcessive hair growth. As typical of her time, she cruelly became a sideshow attraction and was recruited to join Barnum's circus for a tour of the United States in 1888. The photo, with caption, "Mahphoon the Burmese hairy woman," dates from 1886, when Mahphoon was in her late sixties. 6. 5 x 4. 25 inches (16. 5 x 10. 8 cm).