Dunkirk, New York: Giant Indian Head: Ong-Gwe-Ohn-Weh
One of scores of similar, yet all different, giant Indian heads sculpted out of tree trunks by Peter Toth.
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Missing: one Giant Indian Head. We had no problem finding the City Water Filtration plant On Lake Shore Drive West in Dunkirk, where the carved Indian head was supposed to be... but, it was gone! Only the brick base with an information plaque remains, with no indication what happened to the giant carved head. My family suggested that the carving might have been a prank victim of a nearby college university....
[Barb P., 05/11/2014]On Lake Shore Drive West in Dunkirk is an huge Indian head carved out of the trunk of a tree that used to stand there. It was hand carved some time in the 1970s and is pretty impressive. It is in front of the city water filtration plant in Dunkirk, on Rt.5 which becomes Lake Shore Drive in the city.
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Giant Indian Head: Ong-Gwe-Ohn-Weh
- Address:
- Lake Shore Drive, Dunkirk, NY
- Directions:
- Lake Shore Drive West (Route 5). Next to the city's water tower.
- Admission:
- Free
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The wooden head, carved in 1973, was in bad shape, so the town removed it. Sculptor Peter "Wolf" Toth returned to Dunkirk, restored the head (and added six tears), and it was returned to its spot on August 5, 2014.