# @nauflagstaff on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-07-26T19:55:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Northern Arizona University (@nauflagstaff) — https://gondola.cc/nauflagstaff

## Caption

Campus sculpture check ✅⁠
Quick facts about each work ⬇️⁠
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📌 Hungarian artist Péter Párkány created the statue in front of Cline Library for NAU's third-year centennial celebration.⁠
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📌 Artist and alumnus R.C. Gorman created the monument in North Campus to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II & the 400 Navajo Code Talkers who helped win the war.⁠
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📌 Also created by Diné artist R.C. Gorman, "Natoma II" greets visitors at the inner entrance of Old Main. Gorman earned NAU’s Centennial Alumni Award for Achievement in 1999.⁠
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📌 The Lumberjack statue outside of the Skydome once stood at Granny's Closet, formally the Lumberjack Café⁠. It was visible in the 1969 movie Easy Rider.⁠
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📌 Sometimes referred to as the "french fries", this 1984 work titled The Benchmark was created by art professor Jim O'Hara and his students. Steel tubes inside the columns once vented exhaust from the du Bois Center.⁠
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