Women imported from Thailand pose for a picture at an exhibition in what would be know as a Human Zoo in Paris, France in 1889. Human Zoos had people from Africa, Asia, certain islands, even American communities. These Zoos were very prevalent in Europe and the US for patrons to go see the exhibitions of people "in their natural habitat". It got worse, certain women from some areas, especially Africa, were imported just for their figures. It was a humiliating and degrading display that lasted from around the 1850s all the way up until the last one closed in Belgium in 1958.