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| Indian Statues (page 4) |
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| Oh Great Spirit San Luis Obispo, CA |
Oh Great Spirit Westlake Village, CA |
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This 12-foot-tall, bronze sculpture entitled Oh Great Spirit was installed in San Luis Obispo in 2011. It was one of three created by Nell Banister Scruggs. [map]
The sculpture in Westlake Village was installed in front of the Westlake Village Civic Center in 2011. [map] The third sculpture is located in Scruggs' hometown of Asheville, NC. |
| Mohawk Indian Charlemont, MA |
Massasoit Kansas City, MO |
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This bronze Mohawk Indian sculpture in Charlemont is entitled "Hail to the Sunrise". It is a tribute to the five Indian nations of the Mohawk Trail. The statue is eight feet tall and was produced in 1932. [map]
This 13-foot-tall bronze sculpture represents Massasoit, a Wampanoag Indian Warrior. It was created by Cyrus E. Dallin in 1979 and moved to this location in 1997. For more, see this website. [map] |
| Solitary Chief Chillicothe, MO |
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| The 10-foot-tall, bronze Solitary Chief sculpture was created by Hermon Atkins MacNeil in 1904. There were 12 castings of this sculpture made. In 2016, it was donated anonymously and installed in front of the Livingston County Court House. [map] |
| Chief Touch the Clouds Edmond, OK |
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| This 18-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Chief Touch the Clouds was originally installed in 1988 at the Houston Astrodome. The sculpture was created by Dave McGary. It depicts a Lakota Sioux warrior. The City of Edmond purchased the statue in 2013. After it was restored, it was installed in 2015 in front of the University of Central Oklahoma. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map] |
| Crazy Horse Yermo, CA |
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| This sculpture of Crazy Horse was created by Weiming Chen and installed in 2017 in the Liberty Sculpture Park. It is officially titled "The Origin of Freedom Number One: Chief Crazy Horse." For more, see this website. [map] |
| Palacine Oil Indian Bartlesville, OK |
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| This Palacine Oil Indian statue was installed at Woolaroc Ranch in 1935. Frank Phillips of Phillips 66 fame bought four of these statues for his ranch. I believe there are still two others on the property. Other than the ones in Caddo Gap and Ballinger described below, I don't know of any other statues like this that still exist. They were mass-produced in the 1920s and 1930s by the Palacine Oil Company for their Wirt-Franklin gas stations in Oklahoma. The statues are made of cast zinc-alloy and are about 11 feet tall. There were at least 18 of them produced. The faux rock bases were inscribed with the words "A Friend". For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. |
| Palacine Oil Indian Caddo Gap, AR |
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| This Palacine Oil Indian statue was installed here around 1937. It was installed to commemorate the battle of the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his men with the Tula Indian tribe. De Soto was forced to retreat. Later, it was determined that this battle took place about 40 miles away from Caddo Gap. I can't find any books or websites about Arkansas history, where there is a mention of this being a Palacine Oil statue. One website mentions that the statue was brought to Caddo Gap by attorney Osro Cobb. Some websites say that the statue was in bad repair by 1979 and that it was restored in 1980 and dedicated by Bill Clinton. Elsewhere, it is mentioned that the copper and stone statue had blown over in a storm in 1988 and replaced then with the current bronze statue. Guy Tillman is credited with sculpting the replacement. Despite all the disagreement about dates, it's clear that the original statue originally advertised for Palacine Oil. [map] |
| Palacine Oil Indian Ballinger, TX |
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| Indian Ballinger, TX |
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| This Palacine Oil Indian statue was installed in Ballinger City Park in 1939. At some point, the faux rock base was replaced with a real one. The statue was damaged and dumped in a creek in the late 1950s and never recovered. In 2008, Cinnamon Carter began researching the history of the statue with her sixth grade class. This led to fundraising and commissioning a replacement statue. In 2010, a Palacine Oil Indian statue was discovered in Duncan, OK and donated to Carter. It is now in storage at Higginbotham Brothers hardware store. It is hoped that the statue's intact legs can be freed somehow from the concrete inside the barrel. The new bronze statue was installed in the park in 2012. It was created by Hugh Campbell III. For more, see this website. [map] |
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