gift shop
gift shop iz that way
(Crazy Horse Monument)
picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: deamous
Daily Herald:Crazy Horse monument turns 60 with no end in sight
CRAZY HORSE, S.D. — Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world’s largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished.
The carved face of Crazy Horse has been completed and a welcome center and museum are open, but the carving of the Lakota warrior’s body, his horse, and a planned university and medical training center for American Indian students are still years away.
…Continued.
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Or is it the other way? Nice pic of Personage of Historical Significance!
Native American made out of white material
Is it just me? Or is this kind of like the selling cotton on Black History Month
photo? Well, at least its not out of red clay
The statue in the foreground is a scale-model of the planned monument. It is only about twelve feet tall. The actual monument is the natural stone of the Black Hills – slightly reddish, banded with yellow and grey.
I think this is the statue of Crazy Horse, a Native American of whom there are no photos. It is near the carvings of the 4 presidents in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Am I wrong?
oops, it already says that above… ;D
yah, been there. is crap.
It’s not crap. Did you do the Volksmarch and walk out on the arm?
Also, remember to visit the newly built casino
The face looks exactly like the face of George Washington profile to the upper right… Weird.
Actually that is also Crazy Horse carved into the mountain the guy who was making it died before finishing the white marble statue is the model of what the larger one was going to look like.
Actually is gonig to look like they are still making it, wont be done for years though, probably not in our lifetime.
Not for at least 60 years.
The Crazy Horse Monument refuses government grants and relies solely on donations. (For some reason, the Lakota are a bit lukewarm to the idea of a gift from the Government…)
Oh, and for scale people: The four heads of Mt. Rushmore would fit inside Crazy Horse’s head.
I’ve stood right in that spot…it’s actually the other way!! XD
Yah, I noticed that, too : )
You go NOW!!! You been here 4 century!!! You scare-a my wife!
(h/t John Pinette)
Crazy Horse: onward, my steed. We are nowhere near the bar
Still think the profile looks like George Washington… does no one else see that?
Dude, I have been there a lot. My aunt lives about ten miles away. And the gift shop IS THAT WAY!!
ROTFLMAOOMFGBBQ
Is very true lol Do the Volksmarch!
Oddly enough the gift shop really is that a way…….lol
It has nothing to do with the Lakota not accepting gov’t money for this project, as it was started by a Swedish ?) immigrant and is still run by his family. The Native Americans are only marginally involved with the creation of this monument in the SD Black Hills. There is also some controvery, partially because no one is sure that Crazy Horse would have approved of having his likeness in granite.
And there IS a gift shop in that direction.
Not to mention the -tiny- little detail of the Black Hills being sacred to the Lakota…
I referenced the Lakota although, yes, it is the project of the Korczak(?) family; but it is true that they do not accept gov’t grants on the principle of how most gov’t “gifts” to the Lakota were, shall we say, Indian-given.
And I think they’d sacrifice one mountain in the spiritual epicenter of their universe to a proud leader cowardly taken down, versus the other mountain blown up to have 4 white men carved into it.
They paved over my family’s land to make that parking lot
Technically, he’s pointing at the Laughing Water Restaurant…
And Rachel is full of poo…just sayin’
it is crazy horse i went in 2003 it slightly different looking bc they r still working on it
westward-ho!