Model of the Inwood Hill caves (Bronx NY)

Where have all the New York City Ceremonial Stone Landscape Features Gone??

   “Mr. Chenoweth dug away the dirt until he found an easy entrance to a chamber in which a man in stooping posture might crawl about with some difficulty.  The chamber was dry, and the dirt on the floor was soft.  Mr. Chenoweth began turning it through with his trowel.  Many pieces of pottery, some as large as a man’s hand, a few as large as a man’s two hands, lay in little pockets of the sediment. After six hours of digging Mr. Chenoweth had all the fragments of six pots of curious forms and unique manufacture.  As he pushed ahead the next day he found a dark exit from the first chamber to a second one.  The exit was a hole in the rocks; half filled with dirt, and altogether so small that before being cleaned a man would have to crawl through it...” (NY Sun 1890)

    Princess Naomie says: "Back in the woods a bit is what’s called an Indian cave, but between you and I and the gate-post, I don’t believe Indians ever lived there. It leaks..."

     I say: “Look at the location, the path to the Creek, and think about a Stone Sweat Lodge or Pissuponck for a few moments:”

http://myinwood.net/the-indian-caves-of-inwood-hill-park/

http://harlemworldmag.com/hw-pick-princess-noamie-inwood-caves-1936/

A Tour ($45 US):  https://www.rockofagestours.com/bronx

https://manhattanstepbystep.tumblr.com/post/43930723680/native-american-caves-inwood-hill-park-manhattan

 Where have all the New York City Ceremonial Stone Landscape Features Gone??
Long time passing, Long Time Ago...
Gone to WPA work crews - every one???

When will we ever learn...

     When will we ever learn...