patagonians

Giants…Truth or Fiction?

The engraving that we saw at the National Historical Museum of Buenos Aires impresses with the height of the native of Patagonia. The inscription under the engraving states: “The myth of the Patagonian giants is part of the European imagination and perception of the American continent.” However, according to the narratives of the travelers of the 18-19th centuries, the shortest Patagonian was about 2 meters tall.

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First Nations as Seen by Travelers of the 17-19th Centuries

“I never saw men better made, and whose limbs were more proportionate: in order to paint a Hercules or a Mars, one could no where find such beautiful models. Nothing distinguishes their features from those of the Europeans: and if they were cloathed; if they lived less in the open air, and were less exposed to the sun at noon, they would be as white as ourselves…” (Bougainville)

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