At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors I t was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.