Touch to Above - Oklahoma City, OK
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This beautiful steel arch sculpture welcomes visitors to the First Americans Museum.
Waymark Code: WM151CE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/26/2021
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A stainless steel arch with a stone foundation welcomes visitors to the recently opened First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City. The top of the arch is about 10 feet high, and an outstretched hand hands from the top. A cross is at the center of the palm.
Text on plaque:
Touch to Above
Demos Glass (Cherokee Nation) & Bill Glass, Jr. (Cherokee Nation)
Assisted by D.J. Bolin (Cherokee Nation) and Dakota Coatney
Stainless Steel, 2010
"In the past, historians have often recorded that Native people were Sun worshipers because they observed them holding their hands up to welcome the morning Sun. In fact, this was not to worship the Sun, but to worship what was beyond the Sun, the Creator. Touch to Above symbolizes prayer to the Creator.
The arch symbolizes a zenith; in Cherokee ways the Creator resides in a realm seven zeniths high. The cross symbolizes the sacred number four, found in the Creator's order for the direction, seasons, stages of life, and the logs of the stomp dance fire, among others."
Demos Glass and Bill Glass, Jr.
A project of the Oklahoma Arts Council's Art in Public Places program, in cooperation with the Native American Cultural and Educational Authority.
Type: Triumphal (Monument/Memorial)
Subtype: Sculpture
Location: First Americans Museum
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