3-082-878 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Somaliland at the Crystal Palace: inside the Somali Kraal, 1895. 'Pony-racing...a highly natural representation of a Somali village. There are sixty-five Somali natives who engage in various characteristic occupations - racing on dromedaries, shooting with bow and arrow...Herren Hagenbeck and Menges have certainly succeeded in giving a very interesting spectacle...The Somalis come from the western part of North Somaliland, and seem contented with their novel surroundings. They have countenances which are "childlike and bland" in apparent innocence...CARL HAGENBECK'S EAST AFRICAN VILLAGE AND SOMALI DISPLAY...Extraordinary Success. Daily at 3.30 and 6.30. "A veritable bit of life as it is lived on the Dark Continent"…The genuine and unstudied nature of the entire display is its great charm..."THE SOMALIS are quite natural. They 'play act' with the delight of children, and they provide a number of unrehearsed effects..." - Daily Graphic...EAST AFRICAN (SOMALI) VILLAGE...First time Somalis have ever visited England...Imposing and astonishing spectacle. Mimic Battle...Native Dances...The genuine and unstudied nature of the entire display at once impresses the spectator. In wet weather the Somalis will give DISPLAYS in the GRAND CENTRAL TRANSEPT'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.