The costume as a second skin. The exhibited stuffed turkey serves as a reference of a appropriation story, a shell which is filled with different identities. The turkey is Prince Maximilian of Wied, is Karl May, is Old Shatterhand, is a Hobby Indian, is Gerhard Fischer. Prince Maximilian von Wied was the first German pioneer to America. During his travels he studied the cultures of tribes such as the Mandan and the Hidatsa as well as the flora and fauna of the area. One of his finds is this stuffed turkey now archived in the Museum Wiesbaden. Karl May had read all his detailed reports about the Native Americans and used that information as a basis for his novels. Karl May was paticulary inspired by Wied’s friendship with a chief of the Mandan tripe. May adapted it for his novels and created the famous friendship between his his fictious protagonists Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. Old Shatterhand is the alter ego of Karl May, who experienced all the adventures instead of May living far away in Radebeul, Germany. To claim that Kar May himself would really had undergone all the adventures he was writing about, he dressed up in costume of Old Shatterhand according to his description in the novels and used those photographs to proof that he would be the authentic hero.