Type of entertainment.
Were there no kinds of objections in those days to this kind of entertainment?
>> To my surprise there were very few objections against putting
people on display.
There were some objections concerning the sort of production,
the way people performed.
There were very few missionaries who actually objected to
having put human beings on display.
One of the main reasons to show these ethnic shows in
zoological gardens was the space.
So Karl Hagenbeck had the opportunity,
the possibility to erect large recreated villages.
Sometimes from different parts of the world,
sometimes with elaborate scenery in the background.
He had this idea, an idea quite typical for the time, of a sort of authenticity.
So he would not only show people from a certain area.
He would, also put animals on display.
He would have landscapes erected with topical plants, he would have backdrops,
for example Indian temples, or
the Egyptian pyramids with an ethnic show called "At the Nile".
So it was a very elaborate form of business.
>> We're standing next to a poster which says Zoological Garden,
our new compatriots.
Why were the Samoan performers considered to be the compatriots of the Germans?
>> Well we are in the year 1900, since half a year,