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Foyil, OK
Totem Pole Park - Ed Galloway
1880-1963
Roadside attraction, Route 66 attraction
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Information:
Built: 1937-1962
Nathan Edward Galloway was a woodwork teacher and after retirement in 1937, he started working on his monument to the Native American. The central feature is a 27-metre cement totem pole standing on a turtle's back and covered in reliefs of figures and faces, including representations of Sitting Bull and Geronimo. A smaller structure and a concrete tree are similarly embellished.
Alongside them is the eleven-sided Fiddle House, originally Galloway's workshop and a display area for his wooden carvings and hand-made fiddles. After Galloway's death, the Totem Pole Park was abandoned, but in recent years it has been restored by volunteers from the Kansas Grassroots Art Association. The Park is now owned and operated by the Rogers County Historical Society.
The World's Largest Totem Pole & The Fiddle House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text is from "Fantasy Worlds" by Deidi Von Schaewen and John Maizels, Taschen America, LLC, 1999, ISBN 3-8228-7190-7.
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Bibliography:
"Detour Art—Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Folk Art Environments Coast to Coast, Art and Photographs from the Collection of Kelly Ludwig" by Kelly Ludwig, Kansas City Star Books, 2007.
"Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations" (the book), by Randy Mason, Michael Murphy and Don Mayberger, Kansas City Star Publishing, 2002.
On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Prowlin' the Prairie", KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, 1996-2000.
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, McFarland & Company, 2000.
"Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond" by John Maizels, 1996.
"American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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