Bear Girls

Target & Indian girls

Homage to Meret Oppenheim & poisonous mushrooms

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.