Nomadic Senegalese Villages were also presented. The 1931 exhibition in Paris was so successful that 34 million people attended it in six months, while a smaller counter-exhibition entitled The Truth on the Colonies, organized by the Communist Party, attracted very few visitors. The 1900 World’s Fair presented the famous diorama living in Madagascar, while the Colonial Exhibitions in Marseilles (19) and in Paris (19) also displayed humans in cages, often nude or semi-nude. Visited by 28 million people, the 1889 World’s Fair displayed 400 indigenous people as the major attraction. Hagenbeck would also employ agents to take part in his ethnological exhibits, with the aim of exposing his audience to various different subsistence modes and lifestyles.Ī young Filipino girl is pictured sitting on a wooden bench in an enclosure in Coney Island, New York in another horrifying 1906 ‘exhibit’.īoth the 1878 and the 1889 Parisian World’s Fair presented a Black Village (village nègre). Other ethnological expositions included Egyptian and Bedouin mock settlements. In 1880, Hagenbeck dispatched an agent to Labrador to secure a number of Esquimaux (Eskimo / Inuit) from the Moravian mission of Hebron these Inuit were exhibited in his Hamburg Tierpark. The Nubian exhibit was very successful in Europe and toured Paris, London, and Berlin. In 1876, he sent a collaborator to the Egyptian Sudan to bring back some wild beasts and Nubians. Carl Hagenbeck, a merchant in wild animals and future entrepreneur of many zoos in Europe, decided in 1874 to exhibit Samoan and Sami people as “purely natural” populations.
Human zoos could be found in Paris, Hamburg, Antwerp, Barcelona, London, Milan, and New York City. To feed the frenzy, thousands of indigenous individuals from Africa, Asia, and the Americas were brought to the United States and Europe, often under dubious circumstances, to be put on display in a quasi-captive life in “human zoos.” In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Western world was desperate to see the “savage,” “primitive” people described by explorers and adventurers scouting out new lands for colonial exploitation. The horrifying images, some of which were taken as recently as 1958, show how black and Asian people were cruelly treated as exhibits that attracted millions of tourists. These shocking rare photographs show how so-called ‘ human zoos‘ around the world kept ‘primitive natives’ in enclosures so Westerners could gawp and jeer at them. Filipinos are pictured in loincloths sitting in a circle together at Coney Island in New York in the early 20th century while crowds of Americans watch on from behind barriers.
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