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    Ota Benga (c. 1883 – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in...
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    Bronx Zoo (section Ota Benga)
    was, indeed, a man, a Congolese pygmy named Ota Benga. The next day, a sign was posted that gave Ota Benga's height as 4 feet 11 inches, his weight as 103...
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    board as a replacement for Johnson. In September 1906, Congolese pygmy Ota Benga (aged about 23) was exhibited in the Monkey House of the Bronx Zoo. Controversy...
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    acquisitions was Ota Benga, the sole survivor of his clan, whom Verner bought from African slave traders and brought to the United States. Benga became one...
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  • Romanian physician and molecular biologist Ota Benga, pygmy best known for his time at the Bronx Zoo Sokhna Benga (born 1967), Senegalese writer and poet...
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    anthropologist, and head of the New York Zoological Society—had Congolese pygmy Ota Benga put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City alongside apes and other...
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    Madison Grant, head of the New York Zoological Society, exposed Pygmy Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo alongside the apes and others in 1906. At the behest...
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    size in insular humans. Koro-pok-guru, small people in Ainu folklore Ota Benga, man taken as slave and zoo exhibit to the U.S. Vazimba, possible first...
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    her second marriage) Carrie Allen McCray. Hayes intervened to provide Ota Benga, an Mbuti pygmy former slave who was exhibited at anthropological exhibitions...
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    independent tribes worldwide, most notably a young Congolese man, Ota Benga. Benga's imprisonment was put on display as a public service showcasing "a...
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    agreement of Madison Grant, head of the New York Zoological Society—had Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy, displayed in a cage with the chimpanzees, then with...
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  • Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (2009). Published in Ota Benga Alliance Interview with Ernest Wamba dia Wamba | Ota Benga Alliance The Thought and Practice of an Emancipatory...
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    Ota Benga, a famous Congolese pygmy, shows off his sharpened teeth....
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    languages: Some Bantu and Central Sudanic animal names of Ituri languages: Ota Benga (c. 1893–1916), Mbuti man taken to the United States Ofosuah Johnson,...
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  • historian and militant. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DR Congo. A native of the Congo...
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  • other colored volk, were displayed between apes and white men. In 1906, Ota Benga, a Pygmy, was displayed as the "Missing Link", in the Bronx Zoo, New York...
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  • cages, in what has been termed "human zoos". In 1906, Congolese pygmy Ota Benga was put by American anthropologist Madison Grant in a cage in the Bronx...
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  • about obscure historical events and people, including: The pygmy Ota Benga ("Ota Benga's Name") The painter John Banvard ("The Ballad of John Banvard")...
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    1906, as Secretary of the New York Zoological Society, he lobbied to put Ota Benga, a Congolese man from the Mbuti people (a tribe of "pygmies"), on display...
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    century. The second volume was La casa sulla roccia (2014), followed by Ota Benga (2015), L'indegno (2016), L'evidenza delle cose non viste (2017), Io sono...
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    Human zoo Julia Pastrana, a sideshow performer preserved via taxidermy Ota Benga Repatriation of human remains Saartjie Baartman Scientific racism Davies...
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  • animals beside humans who were considered "savages". Congolese pygmy Ota Benga was displayed in 1906 by eugenicist Madison Grant, head of the Bronx Zoo...
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    Farini, one of several sideshow performers billed as a "missing link" Ota Benga The cited reference says, "Zip didn't upset sideshow visitors the way...
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  • Origin of Species between Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, as well as Ota Benga's imprisonment in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri...
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  • "Ota Benga: What has Changed After a Century?". The Digital Literature Review. Retrieved 2024-06-18. "A Fresh Lens on the Notorious Episode of Ota Benga"...
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    available to African Americans in the area. A notable burial is that of Ota Benga (c. 1883–1916), a Congolese pygmy exhibited at human zoos, although his...
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    with and enemies of the Yahi. Ishi's story has been compared to that of Ota Benga, an Mbuti pygmy from Congo. His family had died and were not given a mourning...
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    Feminine beauty ideal Feminism and racism Human variability Human zoo Ota Benga Racial fetishism Racism in Europe Scientific racism Tono Maria Willis...
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    Lynn Bari, (1913-1989), American actress Beth Behrs (born 1985), actress Ota Benga (c. 1883–1916), Congolese native who was exhibited in human zoos James...
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    for conservation, but he encountered controversy after the exhibiting Ota Benga, a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man. In the late nineteenth century William Temple...
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