Posted on 10/03/2007 10:14:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A recent river recovery of an eight ton treasure was followed by angry claims of arch[a]eological thievery... After years of planning and weeks of effort, a Portsmouth, Ohio Volunteer Recovery Team pulled the prehistoric, legendary Indian's Head Rock off the mighty Ohio River's bottom... In the 18 and early 1900's before the days of locks and dams, the boulder would pop up every decade or so, depending on river levels the rock became a popular tourist attraction, a gilded age photo op, featured in post cards. Some of Portsmouth's most prominent citizens scratched their names in the sandstone. Some think maybe this smiling face is an ancient Indian petroglyph, or maybe not... Technically speaking, Corps of Engineers folks say this stretch of Ohio River is Kentucky property and now an angry group of Kentuckians from across the river is mounting a political and legal battle, calling the Ohio Rock Recovery Team archeological looters and possible interstate felons... The city of Portsmouth hopes to display Indian's Head Rock at the welcome center or the new city hall. Meanwhile the Kentucky group says the attorney general's office is contacting the state police to file theft charges against the Ohio recovery team.
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Please do not send the UN to settle or mediate the matter! Women will be raped, officials bribed, natural resources will bartered off, and the matter will never be resolved, until the US sends troops. Just give the damned rock to Ohio; we have lots more in KY.
I don’t “get it”, SunkenCiv. Try as I might, I just do not see an Injun’s Head in this rock. It is a rock — no, it is a fairly nondescript boulder. But it does not look anything like anyone’s head.
Where are the eyes/ears/nose/mouth supposed to be? It’s a common boulder, dammit, not an Injun’s Head.
Crikey! Nobody would have noticed its absence except someone did. Now we will never hear the end of it!
I think the orientation of the supposed features are pretty much the same as Blam’s amusing altered version, with the eyes to the left, nose running (so to speak) from about 10 o’clock to about 4 o’clock. Picture is poor, plus, it’s probably nothing. :’)
I am sure if stare long enough that you will see a sailboat!
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