This structure called an Inukshuk is found on the grounds of the Veterans Centre at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The Inukshuk is a traditional directional marker used by the Inuit in the Arctic regions to point the way to home or hunting grounds. Today they can be found all over Canada. This one has been given a lovely base of flowers to surround it.
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Hello,
I have seen the Inukshuk's before, I did not know they were directional markers. It looks pretty with the flowers around the bottom.
Enjoy your day, have a happy weekend!
...I've seen a number of them in Canada
Believe it or not there's one in Cambridge UK. It stands outside the Scott Polar Museum and directs visitors where to park their bicycles!
They seem to be very popular here too...
I love finding these in different places. We have one at the Heard Museum located out by the street so it greets people.
Reminds me of the stone markers on the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Maine.
It fits in well with the flowers.
I've seen some like that over here. I like the flowers at the base of this one.
Thanks for letting us know the traditional use for Inukshuk. I have thought of these as Cairn. Personally I find the process of stacking and balancing the rocks to be a stress reducing and enjoyable past time.
Never heard that name for them, how lovely. We have similar piles of stones called cairns on mountain paths to help guide people in bad weather.
While we saw many of them, I assumed they were a kind of a totem and I didn't know they originally had directional properties.
Those that I've seen have been alongside trails in the desert and many seemed more like "I was here" than something pointing in a direction. But that's down here in the U.S.
Nice.
So precisely balanced! Love seeing these Pat, would like to give it a go ✨
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