Ota Benga, the Congolese pygmy once lived at the Museum of Natural History (where he was forced to wear a duck costume!) before being scandalously exhibited for a short time in the Bronx Zoo monkey house in 1906. Part of his allure to shocked New Yorkers were his filed teeth.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Ota Benga--The Bronx Zoo's least shining moment.
Posted by
Wade G. Burck
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
2 comments:
Some time check out the book "give me my father's body" it's about a group of Inuit from Greenland brought to U.S. by Robert Peary.
Dear Wade: They were talking about this black man who was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in 1906 on CNN today in connection with Roseanne's racist tweets. Sincerely Paul PS: When I was looking for this post I found a lot of interesting posts about pygmy elephants which I hadn't seen previously.
Post a Comment