Guardian Uktena-like qusuqaniyutôk “a stone wall”
Another photo from November 2012, a roadside Great Snake Effigy - a Serpent Segment of Zig Zag "Stone Wall" just above the Nonnewaug River and Floodplain. From above (and from 1934):
Only some of these 1934 floodplain cornfields are still cornfields. The "Indian Footpath" is now a paved road, widened in the 1980s or 1990s, obliterating some of the rows of stones whose age is unknown:
Around 1740, when the People who were living at the Nonnewaug Wigwams "moved on," wooden rails were probably added to this Indigenous Stone Construction to establish an "improvement," a legal fence four and a half feet high, that established property rights in what became the Town of Woodbury CT, split wooden rails placed so that it is "qusuqaniyutôkanuk" or “on the stone wall”
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