The Cardiff Giant (The Farmers' Museum)

This is The Farmers' Museum's own exhibit page for the Cardiff Giant, the Cooperstown, New York museum that holds and displays the famous 1869 hoax figure. As the holding institution's own custodial record it is authoritative for the object's current display, its provenance since acquisition and the basic facts of its 1869 discovery and swift exposure as a fabrication. Its limit is that it is a museum exhibit page, not a scholarly history of the hoax and the wider nineteenth century culture of giant hoaxes it belonged to, so a claim about that broader context needs a historical source alongside this custodial page.