This display continued for several decades.

Later, his remains were moved to a display at the feature called Giant’s Coffin, another location along the tour route, where he could be seen by more visitors.

He was a significant draw.

He was, in the vocabulary of the commercial cave tourism that had operated at Mammoth Cave since the early nineteenth century, an attraction — one of the most unusual and viscerally powerful things the cave offered.

The actual mummified body of an ancient man, preserved well enough to show details of his clothing, his ornaments, his physical appearance.