Ota Benga - Wikipedia
Ota Benga (c. 1883[2] – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo.
Caged Congolese teen: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise - BBC
2020年8月26日 · Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. Journalist Pamela Newkirk, who has written extensively about the...
Ota Benga's Tragic Life As The Bronx Zoo's Human Exhibit - All …
2016年3月22日 · The shocking story of Ota Benga, the Congolese pygmy kidnapped and held captive as a human anthropology exhibit in the Bronx Zoo. Shocking photos and facts behind one of history's most appalling tales of racism.
The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo | Smithsonian
2008年12月2日 · Two years later, a Congo Pygmy named Ota Benga was housed temporarily at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City—and then exhibited, briefly and controversially, at the Bronx...
Ota Benga: The Black Man the Bronx Zoo Put on Display In 1906
Ota Benga, a young Pygmy, spent part of September 1906 on display at what is now the Bronx Zoo. It wasn't the first time he had been exhibited as an oddity.
Ota Benga: The Tragic Story of the African Man Who Was …
2024年3月23日 · Ota Benga was a Congolese member of the Mbuti pygmy tribe whose tragic story got international attention when he was displayed as a human zoo exhibit in the United States in the early twentieth century.
Ota Benga (ca. 1883–1916) - Encyclopedia Virginia
2023年3月14日 · Ota Benga was a Mbuti man who was brought to the United States from Central Africa and displayed at the Saint Louis World’s Fair, the Museum of Natural History, and the Bronx Zoo Monkey House before settling in Lynchburg, where he died by suicide.
Ota Benga (1883-1916) - Blackpast
2018年9月22日 · Ota Benga was a teenage boy brought from his homeland in central Africa and displayed like an animal at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, New York. Benga was born sometime in 1883 in the Ituri Forest in what would soon become the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Ota Benga - Human Zoos
2018年1月6日 · Benga was later brought back to America by Verner in 1906 and was displayed in the Monkey House of the Bronx Zoo. The exhibit attracted hundreds of thousands of people and created a firestorm of controversy.
Ota Benga: The Man Who Was On Display at the Bronx Zoo
2015年2月19日 · It’s hard to believe that almost 109 years ago, a Congolese pygmy man was put on display at the Bronx Zoo in the Monkey House. Ota Benga was brought over to the United States by the an anthropologist of the name Samuel Phillips Verner who had been hired to bring back pygmies for the 1904 World’s Fair in St Louis.