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Abraham Ulrikab—the ‘zoo exhibit’ who could write

by Shaun Doyle

Creation readers may recall the story of Ota Benga—the pygmy taken from his home in Africa in 1904 and showcased in a US zoo as an example of an evolutionarily ‘primitive’ race.1 His story was not unique; from about 1870 to 1940, “travelling exhibits of non-European natives were recurring features of zoological gardens where they eclipsed the drawing power of the more usual animal exhibits.”2

Abraham Ulrikab was an Inuit (formerly called ‘Eskimo’) whom Moravian missionaries in Hebron, Labrador (Canada), counted among their converts. He and several of his fellow Inuit were one of many so-called ‘primitive’ people to be shown in zoos throughout Europe and North America in that era, showcased as examples of inferior stages of ‘evolutionary progress’.3

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via Abraham Ulrikab.