Geronimo gifted Ota with an arrowhead while they were both captured and held on exhibit at the Worlds fair, in Fairground Pork, North Saint Louis, Mo.
When Verner arrived a month later, he realized the pygmies were more prisoners than performers. Their attempts to congregate peacefully in the forest on Sundays were thwarted by the crowds' fascination with them. McGee's attempts to present a "serious" scientific exhibit were also overturned. On July 28, 1904, the Africans performed to the crowd's preconceived notion that they were "savages", resulting in the First Illinois Regiment being called in to control the mob. Benga and the other Africans eventually performed in a warlike fashion, imitating Native Americans they saw at the Exhibition.[17] The Apache leader Geronimo (featured as "The Human Tyger" β with special dispensation from the Department of War)[16] grew to admire Benga, and gave him one of his arrowheads.[18]
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