Smithsonian Scientists Discovers a Giant Human
Skeleton in Tennessee
Weekly Democratic Statesman, April 12, 1883
Mr. John W. Emmert, employed by the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington, has lately explored a mound at Bristol, Tenn., and secured some interesting
and valuable Indian relics. Among other things in the mound was found the skeleton of a
gigantic Indian.