Ethnographic village

For this purpose, Brazilian flora and fauna were imported, and typical Amerindian dwellings were built.

The village was populated by 50 original Tabajara and Tupinambá people as well as about 250 French dressed as "natives".

[1][2] Similar "Negro villages" has become increasingly common in various places, becoming a staple feature of international exhibitions of late 19th-early 20th centuries, such as the 1889 Paris Exposition.

[3] Since these villages commonly emphasized the backwards, "savage" ways of life as compared to European civilization, the concept was criticized as a manifestation of racism.

In modern Lithuania, an ethnographic village (Lithuanian: etnografinis kaimas) is defined as a rural settlement which maintains traditional, historical, ethnic cultural characteristics specific to the particular region.