The Indian Death Lock

"This is the Indian death lock"

From Time Magazine, 05/18/1936

"Chief Little Wolf (né Tenario), a Navajo tribesman who started as a welterweight (145 lb.) and worked up to heavyweight, is the current red-skinned attraction. The Chief trains on raw meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold."

Indian Death Lock - a Closer View

Close up of "Indian Death Lock"

A competitor locks his opponent’s leg behind the knee and then traps the other leg over the already-locked foot. The competitor can then use his other foot to press against his foe’s knee, and even come within millimeters of breaking the locked leg. If it sounds complicated, that’s because it is. Furthermore, the Deathlock is as painful as it is complex. Only the finest ring grapplers possess the expertise to perform this move.

Thor Jensen - The Man

"Thunderbolt" Thor Jensen

1647 Miles from Capetown

After the Hunt

"Elephant skull and antelope horns in front of a native hut."

Thor Jensen with elephant skull and water buck horns held by pigmy native near Ankana South Rhodesia, 1933.

A Very Slow and Tiresome Job

"Elephants just shipped in from India to work in South Africa. I traveled on same ship with them from Deira (?) to Lorezo Marques Portuguesa East" 

Elephants being trained to work a very slow and tiresome job.

Aboard the Duilio

"Dorthy Ewins of East London, So Africa"

Bull Rhino

"Bull rhino I killed near Lorenzo Marques, Portugeuse East Africa"