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Native American enthusiast Brian Connery paints over grinning face on his 10ft statue after villager complained of its ‘racist overtones’ pensioner repainted the face of a black figure on a Native American totem pole he had erected in his garden after a “woke neighbour” complained to police that it was racist. Brian Connery, who is an enthusiast of Native American culture, installed the 10ft decorative wooden feature earlier this summer in front of his bungalow in Brantham, Suffolk. However, a villager took exception to a carved wooden figure on the pole which depicted a grinning black man with bright white...

Archaeologists find oldest Chinese dragon totem www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-31 18:43:01 ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- A 3,700-year-old antique in the shape of a dragon, made up of over 2,000 pieces of turquoise, is believed by many Chinese scholars as the oldest Chinese dragon totem. The antique was discovered in the Erlitou relics site in YanshiCity of central China's Henan Province. Many Chinese scholars believe that Erlitou is the site of the capital of the Xia Dynasty(2,100 BC-1,600 BC), China's first dynasty. "Although some dragon-shaped relics older than the antique in Erlitou have been uncovered in other places, such as the 7,000-year-old...