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}}</ref> in [[Congo]], but lost his family in a mishap. A businessman named Samuel Phillips Verner went to [[Africa]] in 1904 to bring pygmies for exhibition and found Ota. Verner brought him to the [[United States]] in the summer of 1906.<ref name="CAHC">{{cite book
}}</ref> in [[Congo]], but lost his family in a mishap.
A businessman named Samuel Phillips Verner went to [[Africa]] in 1904 to bring pygmies for exhibition where he found Ota. In 1094, Ota along with several other pygmies were shipped across the Atlantic and were displayed<ref name="CAHC">{{cite book
|author= Haviland et. al.
|author= Haviland et. al.
|title= Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge
|title= Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge
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}}</ref> Ota was handed over to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and was later transported to the Bronx Zoo. The director of the zoo William Temple Hornaday,<ref name="AS">{{cite book
}}</ref> by evolutionist scientists<ref name="ED87">{{cite book
|author= Harun Yahya
|title= The Evolution Deceit
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}}</ref> at a World's Fair in Saint Louis, Missouri.<ref name="CAHC"/> Evolutionist scientists described him as "the closest transitional link to man".<ref name="ED87"/> The fair was successful for its organizers and the pygmies were shipped back to Africa. With the help of Ota, Verner collected artifacts. He returned to the United States in the summer of 1906 along with Ota.<ref name="CAHC"/> Ota was handed over to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and was later transported to the Bronx Zoo. The evolutionist<ref name="ED88">{{cite book
|author= Harun Yahya
|title= The Evolution Deceit
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}}</ref> director of the zoo Dr William Temple Hornaday,<ref name="AS">{{cite book
|author= Bernth Lindfors
|author= Bernth Lindfors
|title= Africans on Stage
|title= Africans on Stage
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}}</ref><ref name="TE"/> with an orangutan.<ref name="SN"/> A sign was placed in the front of the cage which stated Ota's name, height, weight etc. as in the case of animals in a zoo.<ref name="AS"/>
}}</ref><ref name="TE"/> with an orangutan<ref name="SN"/> named Dohung under the denomination of "ancient ancestors of man".<ref name="ED88"/> A sign was placed in the front of the cage which stated Ota's name, height, weight etc. as in the case of animals in a zoo.<ref name="AS"/>
Black clergies protested against this display and ultimately the exhibition was closed. On September 27, 1906, Ota was transferred to the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, a church-sponsored orphanage.<ref name="ITC44">{{cite book
Black clergies protested against this display and ultimately the exhibition was closed. On September 27, 1906, Ota was transferred to the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, a church-sponsored orphanage.<ref name="ITC44">{{cite book