Apparently, I’m documenting Our Vanishing Ceremonial Stone Landscape more than anything else these days. Similar to Eric Sloane writing and sketching about a romantic colonial past, I’m instead blogging about and photographing disappearing features of an Indigenous Cultural Landscape that only a tiny percentage of people are aware of, think is somehow “interesting,” much less worthy of recognition, study, and preservation. I’ve been documenting for years the disappearing Nonnewaug Stone Fish Weir, miles and miles of stonework under powerlines being ground up for road beds, stones popping out of retaining walls at the family home, and now a simple tree fall that knocked apart a formerly very beautiful “Stone Prayer” on a hillside somewhere close to the Madison/Killingworth town line.
In a
recent Face Book post, Karen Lucibello Daigle recorded a bit of video, perhaps in
late winter or early spring, of some tree damage to this Káhtôquwuk or Stone
Prayer that I took a look at once back in 2016:
Captures from Karen’s
video, cobbled into a single image:
Káhtôquwuk or Stone
Prayer on S-Hill:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72177720299519377
Mid S-Hill:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157665915629962
Upper S-Hill:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157665814497872
http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2019/04/some-lines-from-hammonasset-story.html
https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2022/06/our-vanishing-ceremonial-stone.html
The photo of the large cairn on the boulder is not Platform B, but probably the backside of Platform Cairn B at the same site."
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