NEW TODAY Researcher Russ Taichman has found a wooden model of the monument from the lost vault/grave described by Sŭ-pung-er on King William Island, the site sought for by Louie Kamookak, Dave Woodman, and Tom Gross. Numerous attempts over the years have been made to try to imagine what this monument looked like, through translated Inuit testimony. However the model now found by Taichman was likely carved by Sŭ-pung-er himself, for Charles Francis Hall who then preserved it. Taichman identified the artifact in the Smithsonian collections in Washington DC — and then also, in an 1869 relics sketch in
illuminator newsletter #26
illuminator newsletter #26
illuminator newsletter #26
NEW TODAY Researcher Russ Taichman has found a wooden model of the monument from the lost vault/grave described by Sŭ-pung-er on King William Island, the site sought for by Louie Kamookak, Dave Woodman, and Tom Gross. Numerous attempts over the years have been made to try to imagine what this monument looked like, through translated Inuit testimony. However the model now found by Taichman was likely carved by Sŭ-pung-er himself, for Charles Francis Hall who then preserved it. Taichman identified the artifact in the Smithsonian collections in Washington DC — and then also, in an 1869 relics sketch in