Stone Foot Speculations

It is speculated that British Columbia's "stone foot" (age not known) might have been patterned after a sasquatch footprint. Unfortunately, the lower part of the foot is missing, so we don't know how long the carving was.

The actual foot, shown here on the far left, is 8.82 inches (22.4 cm) long. To get an idea of how long the complete foot was, I have effectively completed it as seen on the immediate left. I have reasoned that the bowl design in the center would have been symmetrical. In other words, the missing lower part would have followed the same lines as the top part. I have also reasoned that the distance from the top point of the bowl to the beginning of the toes would have been about the same from the lower point to the end of the foot. While I might be wrong here, Native people usually keep their art geometrically correct so that is pleasing to the eye. The mock-up was created by mirror imaging the top portion on the bottom, and then removing the toe. The final foot length comes out at 11.94 inches (30.3 cm), not quite in line with standard sasquatch prints, but certainly indicates a tall individual. The foot, however, has another aspect. It is thought to have been a medicine man's bowl. As the sasquatch is held sacred to some First Nations people, designing the bowl after a sasquatch footprint might have been done to give it some sacred of supernatural qualities.

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