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- Artists
- Louie, Travis
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| Year: | 2013 | | Class: | Original Art | | Status: | Unknown | | Run: | 1 | | Size: | 8 X 11 | | Markings: | Signed |
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Troll Head From Inverness
graphite on paper by Travis Louie
In the middle ages, trolls sometimes came down from the mountains at night to steal livestock for food or to cause all manner of mischief. During extreme cases, they were beheaded as punishment. Sometimes the heads would not die and they were kept as household curiosities or pets. One of these troll heads was discovered during a raid on a castle by the Clan MacDonald in 1491. It was in the territory now known today as Inverness. At the end of the siege, the head was recovered, sealed in a box, and misplaced for hundreds of years. It reappeared in 1873, in Cooperstown, New York as part of a traveling carnival. The giant head, which measured 3 feet in diameter, spoke several languages and told stories of its time in Inverness and how it had seen Mary, Queen of Scots, and had a conversation with Oliver Cromwell!
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