Yale Covers Up Gun in Stone Carving of Puritan, Indian
Rob Shimshock
August 11, 2017

Yale University has covered up a musket on a stone carving depicting a hostile interaction between a Puritan settler and an American Indian, leaving the latter’s bow and arrow uncovered.

Yale’s head librarian, Susan Gibbons, and the school’s Committee on Art in Public Spaces decided the carving’s presence at a reopened entrance to the school’s library was “not appropriate,” according to Yale Alumni Magazine.

Gibbons said the stone covering the musket could be removed without defacing the carving.

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Yale’s Committee on Art in Public Spaces said its mission is to “hear from members of the community about art and other symbolic representations related to diversity and consider ways Yale might better reflect campus and our history.”

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I for one feel much safer now that the stone musket is no longer in the hands of the stone pilgrim. Whew.

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