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IN a footnote to a brief communication made by Virchow in 18731 is a statement transmitted to him through Jagor and A. W. Franks, which seems to imply that David Forbes, the well-known geologist, owned or knew of wooden statuettes taken from the guano deposits of the Peruvian coast, depicting a man being bitten in the penis by a snake. This motif is known on certain Mochica ceramics2, but otherwise appears to be absent from Peruvian iconography.
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Verhandl. Berliner Ges. f. Anthropol. Ethnol. u. Urgeschichte, 154 (1873) in Z. Ethnol., 5 (1873).
For example, "Cerámicas del antiguo Perú, coll. Wassermann-San Blas", privately printed (Buenos Aires, 1938), 272–73, Figs. 471, 742.
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KUBLER, G., HUTCHINSON, G. David Forbes and Guano Archæology. Nature 154, 773 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154773b0
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