I don’t know, but certainly there is a long history of exoticizing and fetishizing the other in European culture. Indigenous peoples from all over the world were brought back by colonialists and imperialists to London and Paris and whatnot, to be exhibited like animals in a zoo. Europeans appropriated the likeness and cultural artifacts of indigenous peoples to decorate their maps, newspapers, magazines, and even product packaging in the past. If nothing else this sort off thing speaks to a sort of unthinking ethnocentrism that is no less offensive for being somewhat genteel.