Another unexpected rock side quest today. I finally saw the #Dighton rock. Been on my bucket list for years.
It's...curious.
It's in a purpose build "museum" from the 1970s. I don't think the exhibit has been updated since. It needs some refreshing.
But the rock is neat.
And there's a phone number to call a Mass DCR person and they come over and open it up. I had the place to myself.
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There is a second #SacredCod there. Who knew there were two.
(The first one, if you are not familiar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Cod)
2/n
Inside the glass case with the rock is this enormous shale "lithocollage". I have never seen anything like it. It appears to have been a kind of homage to the indigenous residents of the area.
I can't find out much about the artist yet. It says: Andriana Chipi Tegu and the name Tegu is embedded in the shale near the bottom.
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So the interpretations of the carvings on the #DightonRock are covered in the exhibit. They are...um...products of their time. Some of the "interpreters" never even saw the rock, they were working with old and incomplete diagrams.
Some are bonkers.
But I don't know what it is either. Could be more than one thing over the centuries.
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