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Article: CARVING PROCLAIMS HERITAGE ARTIST MAKING HUGE SCULPTURE FOR TRIBE.(Lifestyle)
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- The Capital Times
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- June 20, 2000
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Picture an 18,400-pound chunk of redwood, crashing into the Pacific Ocean, rolling with and against the waves, perhaps for decades.
Now imagine the giant stump washing ashore, onto a farmer's land in Humbolt County, California. Slivers of it are cut and sold as fenceposts -- until Gene Delcourt comes along.
The Shabazz City High School social studies teacher, and artist, had been looking for material worthy of being used in an unusual project. This sure fit the bill.
Since last July, the redwood has sat in a tobacco barn near Cottage Grove. In February, Delcourt began carving it into a life-size symbol of Lac du Flambeau heritage.
The ...