![]() This method was made disreputable by a sideshow connoisseur P.T.Barnum, who used this method to create mermaids, elves, jackalopes and many other such creatures to entertain people. This method can be used to make any desirable traits on a dead body with minor detections of remodelling. It is a special technique which utilizes mixed media sculptures containing conventional taxidermy materials and used it in unconventional ways. Some people are even claiming it to be a work of rogue taxidermy. Although, when students of Hopkins University students did an MRI on the body along with the inspection of a radiologist, no evidence of it being fake was found. There are no valid documentations about the true identity of Captain George Bickle or his valiant tale.Įven the genuineness of the body is being questioned, that whether it is a real body or some cleverly stitched and manipulated craftsmanship of a talented taxidermist. So it might be possible that they had witnessed such tall people in their voyage but exaggerated their features in the course of storytelling. Firstly, the average height of the natives in South America is recorded as taller than the average Europeans. Still, there are any contradictory facts defying the authenticity of the Kap Dear giant. However, both stories end up in the same way the body became a collectable item for showmen. Similar another tale says, the Paraguay natives found the body on a beach, mummified it and worshipped it in religious ceremonies, until a British schooner Captain George Bickle stole the body and brought it to Britain. Later it became the centre of attraction for many shows in Britain and then later in America in the 19th century. There are many interesting stories on its origin.Īccording to a source of fact, Spanish sailors captured Kap Dwa in around 1673 on the beaches of Patagonia, killed and mummified it. The corpse that is displayed in Maryland is unique in a way because it has two heads. Patagonia is a region in the southern part of South America divided by Andes Mountains and shared by both Argentina and Chile. Kap Dwa( "two heads" in Malay language) is said to be a Patagonian giant of 12-feet(3.66 meters) of height, the body of such species is preserved in a museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. One of such mysterious topic is on two headed Kap Dwa. ![]() ![]() However, history is filled with characters of such enormous proportions in different cultures like the Chinese giant Pangu, Goliath in The Bible, Kumbhkaran in The Ramayana etc. ![]() The tallest man recorded in medical history is an American, Robert Pershing Wadlow(1918-1940) who measured 2.72m(8ft 11.1in) tall. Gigantism is a genetic anomaly in which people are "abnormally" larger than their counterparts, and many of such kinds are still living among us. ![]()
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