This is a photograph of a Pygmy man. A pygmy is defined as: any of a small people of equatorial Africa ranging under five feet (1.5 meters) in height (Merriam-Webster).
This pygmy man's name is Oto Benga. He was brought to the united States in 1904, by a journalist named Samuel Verner. He was 4 foot 11 inches and weighed in at 103 pounds. He was put on display in the St. Louis Fair to start his life off in the United States. After the St Louis World fair, he became one of the main exhibits in the Bronx Zoo. He was put into a cage with an orangutan, and an ape. They were Trying to assume that he was the missing link in Darwin’s theory of evolution. He would have to sleep and eat with these animals every day. Until one day they decided to let him out but he would have to return to the cage to sleep at night. Eventually he became well known around the area and became the keeper of animals.
He was eventually let out of the cage and was allowed to live a free life in the United States. He tried to go to school at Virginia Theological College, but had to quit. He was quite tired of the stress and ended his life in 1916.
This pygmy man's name is Oto Benga. He was brought to the united States in 1904, by a journalist named Samuel Verner. He was 4 foot 11 inches and weighed in at 103 pounds. He was put on display in the St. Louis Fair to start his life off in the United States. After the St Louis World fair, he became one of the main exhibits in the Bronx Zoo. He was put into a cage with an orangutan, and an ape. They were Trying to assume that he was the missing link in Darwin’s theory of evolution. He would have to sleep and eat with these animals every day. Until one day they decided to let him out but he would have to return to the cage to sleep at night. Eventually he became well known around the area and became the keeper of animals.
He was eventually let out of the cage and was allowed to live a free life in the United States. He tried to go to school at Virginia Theological College, but had to quit. He was quite tired of the stress and ended his life in 1916.