"Many museums and private collections in the UK, Europe, and the USA hold cultural artefacts of the type commonly referred to as mermen or ‘feejee mermaids’. Most of these are accompanied by little in the way of information about their origins, but they are generally associated with Asia and particularly with Japan [...]."
Excerpt from:
Viscardi, Paolo & Hollinshead, Anita & MacFarlane, Ross & Moffatt, James
Mermaids uncovered. Journal of Museum Ethnography, 2014, 27, 98-116
For an access to an earlier drafts of the paper online:
paolov.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/jme27_viscardi_et_al-finaldraft.pdf
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