Appeal to the Great Spirit Replica

Appeal to the Great Spirit Replica

Sitting at a prominent intersection in Muncie, Indiana, this bronze statue, titled Appeal to the Great Spirit, is a replica of the original located in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. At the Muncie site, a single plaque notes that the statue was placed in memory of Edward Burke Ball (1855–1925) by his wife and children. This copy was approved by Cyrus Dallin, who sculpted the original statue in 1908. Ball was one of the…