fiji mermaid gaff

The great P.T. Barnum exhibited the most famous feejee mermaid, supposedly caught off the Fiji Islands in 1842 by “http://curiousexpeditions.org.nyud.net/;naturalist”http://curiousexpeditions.org.nyud.net/; Dr. J. Griffin.... The Museum der Natur'http://curiousexpeditions.org.nyud.net/;s folklore section is filled with incredible gaffs and hoaxs (like the extraordinary snouter), and leaves visitors like us longing for the time when artful taxidermy could be famous, and horrible...


infamous Fiji Mermaid gaff


infamous Fiji Mermaid gaff


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Fiji Mermaid Circus Sideshow


Feejee Mermaid


FIJI MERMAID SIDESHOW GAFF

Although it never stays put, it seems to end up in my room, on the couch, on the kitchen table, in a box. I have always been interested in sideshow gaffs and the Fiji Mermaid is one of my favorites. Work in progress The Fiji...
Work in progress The Fiji Mermaid - Grimvisions

Gaffs are a form of highly specialized hyper-realism sculptures simulating artifacts of curiosities and oddities (some are completely fictional, such as Fiji Mermaid and Jackalope) displayed at the pay-per-view sideshows...
fiji mermaid gaff