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Phillips Verner Bradford, the grandson of Samuel Phillips Verner, wrote a book on the Congolese entitled Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo ( 1992 ).

During his research for the book, he visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which holds a life mask and body cast of Ota Benga.

The display is still labeled " Pygmy ", rather than indicating Benga's name, despite objections beginning a century ago from Verner and repeated by others.