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Milky quartz stone
Framed by other stones
In the camera’s frame
The professor’s quotation in the caption reads:
“This remnant of single wall construction in Lyme, New
Hampshire, shows a variety of features: Shapes are blocks, slabs, and pillows;
sizes are mainly two-handers, with one one-hander; order is stacked, rather
than laid or tossed; structure is a single-tiered, un-coursed wall
one-on-two-and-two-on-one, with one error; lithology is mainly granite and
gneiss.”
Some will tell you
These Stones are
A monument to Yankee
Exceptionalism,
Overnight sensations that brought
civilization
Into a pristine howling wilderness
Where savages roamed like foxes
and beasts
Some will tell you
These Stones
Couldn’t have been the work of the
Original Owners who belonged to the land,
Couldn’t have been an aspect of
their religion and culture,
Both banned early on by those
Yankees, those English,
Who forbid the speaking of the old
languages and the practice of the old religion
Up to the days of the 1970s
Proto-Disco Era legislation that finally legalized
The freedom to practice Native
American religions
Just in time for the Bicentennial
Celebration, one might add...
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Maunumuet – “where someone gathers it” Stone prayer place,
in the singular, in the plural, ceremonial stone landscape (maunumuetash).
Kodtonquag(kash), kodtuhquag,
kahtoquwuk - Means ‘heaped up by placing on top’ or more properly “it is raised
construction” and is arranged in courses around a semi-open center by those
who invest them with prayer and then raise them up together.
These are placed directly on the ground. Made of the roundest available large cobbles
or tabular stones.
Stone Prayer - “Invested with prayers for the balance of the
universe”
https://www.ethicarch.org/post/understanding-stone-prayers-in-the-northeasterncultural
