stiltsmen

Updated: May 26, 2025

Some of the municipalities of the environs of Bayonne and Biarritz still organize stilt races, at the period of the influx of travelers; but the latter claim that the stiltsmen thus presented are not genuine Landese shepherds, but simple supernumeraries recruited at hazard, and in most cases from among strolling acrobats.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891