Sculpture Garden

"To be capable of respect is today almost as rare as to be worthy of it" Joseph Joubert, French Moralist 1754-1824	Emile Brunel
	1874-1944

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Totem Indian Trading Post and Museum, Boiceville, N.Y.
The oldest Indian Trading Post and Museum in Ulster County. In 1933 the totem pole and Indian statues in Brunel Park were erected and dedicated by Emile Brunel, to the Great White Spirit and to the Grandeurs and mysteries of Nature as a token of admiration of the beauty of the Catskill Mountains and in the memory of Travelers to the Happy Hunting Grounds.
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All artifacts and crafts in the trading post direct from Indian craftsmen. Our long experience in trading assures you of quality unavailable elsewhere. Indian trade jewelry, ancestry rugs, paintings, custom made Indian garments and much more from all Indian nations. N.Y. State Thruway exit 1B Kingston then Route 28 west to Boiceville and Brunel Park.

Tour the Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden- click on photos to enlarge


Out of the house, and going to take a sacred journey. Looking at the back of the Brunel Trading Post.	The Barbeque pit as it looks now, being rebuilt.	Old Photo of Brunel standing by his Barbeque Pit in the back yard. The Indian is the chimney to the Barbeque Pit.	The Natural Path up to the Sacred Mound.


Statues dedicated by Brunel in 1933. In the foreground, is the back of the Brunel House.	Someone standing next to Big Chief Moo-Haw-Haw	Chief Moo-Haw-Haw, Praying to the Great Spirit.	Old photo with live model standing with Indian Sculpture- Chief Moo-Haw-Haw


	This old photo shows the scale of this Indian sculpture. Live person posed on the extended hand.


The Great White Spirits column with four heads on the top, representing Buddha, Moses, Christ, and Mohammed. ©Oct. 30, 1937	The four faces on the bottom of the column represent, Satan, Bellona, Bacchante, and Cleopatra, or representing Hate, Greed, Jealousy, and Lust.	The column is 35 feet high with an urn on the top, that has the remains of Emile Brunel.	Mohammed on top, Bacchante on the bottom.


		Old photo showing this sculpture being built.


		Postcard of Indian Totem Museum.