Sunday Funnies: What The . . . ?

Check out this crazy photo from the book Etched In Ice

The accompanying caption tries to explain what's going on here:

“In 1902 the North-West Mounted Police, responsible for keeping the peace in the often riotous Yukon, blew off steam by dressing as women for a ‘drag’ game in Whitehorse.”

The book also features this photo of a genuine women's team known as the Buffalo Snow Birds:

These women must have loved their hockey, as the caption says they “braved a 1920s winter to play a little bathing-suit shinny.”