UAP Trail Workspace
458 cases · 37 threads
Show
Document · 1875–1894

The Smithsonian's mound 'giant' reports

The Smithsonian's own 19th-century reports on mound excavations do record a handful of unusually tall skeletons, with one 'gigantic savage' and the 'largest-sized stone ax'. Every measured one is 7 to 7½ ft; the 9-15 ft figures and the jaw that fits over a man's head do not appear in the reports checked. Timothy Alberino adds an anonymous account of giant femurs in a Smithsonian warehouse.

Page 426 of Cyrus Thomas's 1894 Report on the Mound Explorations (12th BAE Annual Report): Mound No. 21, Kanawha County, West Virginia, where a skeleton 'measuring 7½ feet in length and 19 inches across the shoulders' is described with copper bracelets and a gorget.
Page 426 of Cyrus Thomas's 1894 Report on the Mound Explorations (12th BAE Annual Report): Mound No. 21, Kanawha County, West Virginia, where a skeleton 'measuring 7½ feet in length and 19 inches across the shoulders' is described with copper bracelets and a gorget. · Cyrus Thomas, Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 1890-91 (Washington, 1894); scan via Internet Archive
Page 427 of the same report, continuing the Kanawha County Mound No. 21 description, including the phrase 'this giant frame' and the list of finds.
Page 362 of the same report: a burial in Mound 12, Long Island, Roane County, Tennessee, measured at 7 feet 3 inches, which the report estimates at 'fully 7½ feet high' in life.

Overview

  • On the record: four Smithsonian/Bureau of Ethnology passages describe skeletons of 7 to 7½ ft, with page numbers.
  • Not found: the jaw-over-the-head skeleton and anything above 7½ ft.
  • Anonymous: a warehouse drawer of giant femurs, via Alberino and Quayle.

Connected

Timothy Alberino person

Sources

Mentioned on (1)

A research project by Igor FrancePrivacy