Category:Ota Benga

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Ota Benga was a pygmy from the Belgian Congo, enslaved, then brought to the United States and exhibited as a "human zoo" inmate.

Ota Benga

Mbuti pygmy featured in an anthropology exhibit in 1904

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Date of birth

c. 1883
Kasai River (Congo Free State, near), Ituri Rainforest (Congo Free State)

Date of death

20 March 1916
Lynchburg

Manner of death

suicide

Cause of death

gunshot wound

Place of burial

Lynchburg (37°23′56.23″N 79°7′58.41″W)

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"Cannibal." (Ota Benga, Pygmy. Part of Department of Anthropology at the 1904 World's Fair).jpg 4,715 × 6,406; 7.52 MB
"Pygmy showing mutilated teeth." (Ota Benga, Pygmy from Belgian Congo in the Department of Anthropology at the 1904 World's Fair).jpg 3,492 × 4,141; 2.59 MB
Dancing pygmies.jpg 751 × 517; 79 KB
Four Pygmies posing with spears. Ota Benga on right. (Taken during the 1904 World's Fair).jpg 5,604 × 7,143; 9.44 MB
Louisiana Purchase pygmies.jpg 818 × 590; 103 KB
MPP-Ne5.jpg 220 × 290; 42 KB
Ota Benga (American Museum of Natural History).jpeg 1,681 × 2,040; 1.21 MB
Ota Benga - New York Times report 1906 (fragment).jpeg 421 × 720; 156 KB
Ota Benga 1904.jpg 299 × 376; 7 KB
Ota Benga at 1904 World's Fair.jpg 900 × 1,200; 431 KB
Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo.jpg 2,689 × 5,192; 5.57 MB
Ota Benga, sharpened teeth and spear.jpg 500 × 500; 19 KB
Ota Benga-Buste-1906.jpg 2,736 × 3,648; 1.94 MB
Reverend James Gordon.jpeg 876 × 1,020; 243 KB
Samuel Phillips Verner in Congo, 1902.jpeg 768 × 1,020; 229 KB
Samuel Phillips Verner.jpg 580 × 720; 140 KB
William Temple Hornaday.jpeg 443 × 600; 50 KB

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