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RECENTLY I was interested to hear, from a friend, of the discovery in Patagonia of a representation of a human head sculptured in stone, and, at his request, the finder kindly allowed me to have it for examination.
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This is figured by R. Hauthal, "Zwei bemerkenswerke Funde im siidlichen Patagonien" (Congrès International des Américanistes. Compte rendu de la XXIe Session, deuxième partie, tenue à Göteborg en 1924, Fig. 6a, p. 518), Göteborg, 1925.
The story of this extraordinary "discovery" has been told by J. Imbelloni, "Nota sobre los supuestos descubrimientos del doctor J. G. Wolff en Patagonia" (Revisla de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, vol. 51, pp. 39–51), Buenos Aires, 1923, and "L'uomo terziario fossile della Patagonia e la sua veridica istoria" (Revista mensile del Touring Club Italiano, Le Vie d'Italia e dell' America Latino), Milan, 1924.
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GARDNER, G. Another Patagonian Lusus Naturæ. Nature 118, 262 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118262a0
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