She was the daughter of an hatmaker named Adam Zelle. As wonder the girl looks like an asian people but her family comes really since many generations from the nedderlands country. This all gives a aura of secrets about her person who goes on after her dead since today. Something this woman tells is rigt and something not. For Europeans the orient is a region in Noth Africa and the middle East only.
American people see the orient in china, india and so on.
At the beginning of the 20 century in Europe means this term also the region at India. Mata Hari never learn real temple dances or oriental bellydance before she begins with here carrier. She only has some talent for dancing and interpretation of dances she have seen on Java. In the salons of Paris at 1905 nobody can be asses, how good or real she dance. Her show was full of smells and wonderfull mutch exotic so the athmosphere make the public like be whiched.