Featherless

There is an artist (Peter Wolf Toth) who created a series of wood sculptures called Whispering Giants all around the country.  He is paid expenses, a town supplies him with the wood, and he creates a sculpture of a Native American that is similar to the type of people who lived in the area in the past. 

 

The problem is that he makes this out of wood and perhaps doesn’t treat or preserve the wood well.  The sculpture pictured is called Rotaynah (the Tuscaroran name for Chief) and was created in Akron Ohio in 1985.  It used to have 5 feathers that were 16 feet tall and weighed 3,000 pounds (older picture  below from the internet).  Unfortunately the wood deteriorated due to water and termites until the town was worried about safety.  It turned out the wood left that was holding up the feathers was only a 3” diameter section.  They removed the feathers and put them in storage two years ago. They also filled the damaged spots with foam and stained it.  There is no news if the feathers will ever return.