🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Grand Canyon mystery photo?

[TigerTown53]

Found some old photos of the Grand Canyon and it looks as if there is a statue of some sort in the photo. I have tried to isolate the area of the photo. Does anyone else think there is something there or is my imagination overactive? lol

 

[Marino13]

It does look like a statue.

 

[robertk]

I just looks like shadows on a rock fracture/crevice to me. If it's a statue, it would have to be pretty huge.

 

[Red-Coat]

Just looks like a geological formation to me.

That picture is from John Wesley Powell’s second expedition to survey the Colorado River between 1871-1872 and taken in April of 1872. It’s generally attributed to James Fennemore, but Elias Olcott Beaman was also one of the photographers. John Karl Hillers had originally been a boatman for the expedition, later acting as a photographic assistant, and the tiny figure sitting on a ledge to the right is said to be him.

If there had been a statue or any kind of remarkable feature, it would surely have been mentioned in Powell’s 1875 “Report on the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries” (revised and reissued in 1895 as “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”).

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

That's my grampa, Joosepi

 

[TigerTown53]

It does look like a statue.

Yes it does.

 

[Robot]

Hi TigerTown53,
Welcome to the "Show"!
There are numerous Pyramids, Statues, Pictures Carved in the Grand Canyon...some by nature and some by man.
It is a real Treasure Trove!

 

[TigerTown53]

I just looks like shadows on a rock fracture/crevice to me. If it's a statue, it would have to be pretty huge.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[TigerTown53]

Just looks like a geological formation to me.

That picture is from John Wesley Powell’s second expedition to survey the Colorado River between 1871-1872 and taken in April of 1872. It’s generally attributed to James Fennemore, but Elias Olcott Beaman was also one of the photographers. John Karl Hillers had originally been a boatman for the expedition, later acting as a photographic assistant, and the tiny figure sitting on a ledge to the right is said to be him.

If there had been a statue or any kind of remarkable feature, it would surely have been mentioned in Powell’s 1875 “Report on the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries” (revised and reissued in 1895 as “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”).

Thanks for your reply.

 

[TigerTown53]

Hi TigerTown53,
Welcome to the "Show"!
There are numerous Pyramids, Statues, Pictures Carved in the Grand Canyon...some by nature and some by man.
It is a real Treasure Trove!

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Hi TigerTown53,
Welcome to the "Show"!
There are numerous Pyramids, Statues, Pictures Carved in the Grand Canyon...some by nature and some by man.
It is a real Treasure Trove!

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Thanks for your reply.