Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park, Sculpture garden and folk art site in Foyil, Oklahoma.
Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park is a 14-acre sculpture garden in Rogers County, Oklahoma, with eleven sculptures and one building. Its main totem pole, about 90 feet tall and 30 feet wide at the base, rests on a turtle and carries roughly 200 bas-relief images. The eleven-sided Fiddle House is supported inside and out by 25 concrete totem poles.
Ed Galloway retired in 1937 and moved to a farm near Foyil, where he built the main totem pole with six tons of steel, 28 tons of cement and 100 tons of sand and rock, completing it in 1948 at about 90 feet. He worked on the park daily until his death in 1961. In the 1990s the Kansas Grassroots Art Association led restoration, and the pole's upper section was repaired from 2015 to 2020.
The designs draw inspiration from National Geographic magazines and postcards rather than following traditional Native American patterns. Visitors can observe how Galloway incorporated these modern sources into his artistic work.
The park is free to visit and is maintained by the Rogers County Historical Society. The grounds offer picnic areas, and comfortable walking shoes are recommended to explore the various sculptures and structures.
The Fiddle House once displayed Galloway's hand-carved fiddles, handmade furniture and bas-relief portraits of US presidents up to John F. Kennedy. Many of these items were stolen in 1970 and never recovered; the building now serves as a museum and gift shop.
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