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The Paris Colonial Expostion (or "Exposition coloniale internationale", International Colonial Exposition) was a six-month Colonial Exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931, that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resources of France's colonial possessions. The exposition opened on 6 May 1931 in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of Paris. This exhibition was organized in a typical colonial fashion, to show the economic and moral superiority of the French country, and the products of the grateful colonized. The souvenir medal from the exhibition speaks volumes. The bas-relief features a Western woman on the right (A personification of France with references to allegorical representations of Liberty, Truth, or Wisdom) outstretching her arm to gently comfort and protect her smiling representations of ethnic stereotypes. The exhibition included a "human zoo," displaying nomadic Senegalese Villages.

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• Magiciens de la terre worked with the 1931 show, L’Exposition Coloniale as a counter-reference point.