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    		• Toth, Peter,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Head
     
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    		• Dress -- Ethnic
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Indian
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Colquitt
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Trail of Whispering Giants, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Toth, Peter, 1947- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Trail of Whispering Giants, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Georgia Indian Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated February 1973. Relocated ca. 1990.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: red oak and painted fiberglass; Base: red oak and painted fiberglass.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 18 x 5 x 5 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    An elongated head of a Native-American male wearing a headband and his hair in braids. His face is made of red oak covered in sheets of fiberglass and painted several times in brown. Wooden poles are stacked palisade style around the sides and back, forming a backdrop for the head. The head rests on a base of the same material.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Head
    Dress -- Ethnic -- Indian Dress
    Ethnic -- Indian
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Colquitt
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Colquitt, P. O. 253, Colquitt, Georgia 31737
    Located Highway 91, southwest of town, Colquitt, Georgia
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located One mile down Highway 27, Colquitt, Georgia before 1990.
    Remarks: 
    A nearby plaque on rock in front of sculpture reads: TRAIL OF WHISPERING GIANTS/GIFT TO EACH OF THE FIFTY/STATES TO HONOR THE INDIANS/FEB. 1973/PETER TOTH, SCULPTOR. IAS files contain an excerpt from Peter Wolf Toth's "Indian Giver," Lincoln, NE: Tribal Press, 1980, pg. 70-73.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS GA000446
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