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Newkirk, Pamela.
Subjects
Benga, Ota.
Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Pygmies -- United States -- Biography.
Pygmies -- Crimes against -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mbuti (African people) -- Biography.
Human zoos -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Newkirk, Pamela.
Benga, Ota.
Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Pygmies -- United States -- Biography.
Pygmies -- Crimes against -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mbuti (African people) -- Biography.
Human zoos -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Spectacle
[sound recording] : the
astonishing
life
of
Ota
Benga
/ Pamela Newkirk.
by
Newkirk, Pamela.
Dreamscape Media, 2015.
Call #:
COMPACT DISC 305.896067 B466n
Subjects
Benga
,
Ota
.
Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Pygmies -- United States -- Biography.
Pygmies -- Crimes against -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mbuti (African people) -- Biography.
Human zoos -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social
life
and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781681410616
Alternate title:
Astonishing
life
of
Ota
Benga
[sound recording]
Ota
Benga
[sound recording]
Format:
[sound recording] :
Edition:
Unabridged.
Description:
8 compact discs (9 hr., 39 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Performers:
Read by Bahni Turpin.
Summary:
In 1904,
Ota
Benga
, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. Pamela Newkirk explores the circumstances of
Ota
Benga
's captivity, the international controversy it inspired, and his efforts to adjust to American
life
.
Genre:
Biographies.
Adult books on CD.
Other authors:
Turpin, Bahni.
Dreamscape Media.
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Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Nonfiction on CD
COMPACT DISC 305.896067 B466n
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