Photos by Sandra Michaud
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The entrance to Bear Mountain Lodge
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Barbara Nance's donkey sculpture carrying bones.
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Steve Sans, Jerrianne Jones, Ron Gabioud, Jane Riger and Lynda Aiman-Smith of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver City carried their pack of bones as a group.
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Diane Miller and Faye McCalmont load bones into their packs
One Million Bones go up to permanent meadow 120617
Rachel MacFarland is loading up for her third trip to the meadow
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Carolyn White and daughter Ryanne start up the trail
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The trail is marked by ceramic bones
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Ron Groves and Jim Mathews get ready to go up the trail
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An indentified hiker returns after completing the trip.
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Bob and Trish Buerger
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Judy and John O’Loughlin, Helen Schruf and Doug Stern
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When first entering the meadow, even the fraction of bones that have been carried up look like snow patches on the land
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Some of the piles of ceramic bones that have already been transferred to the meadow
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A few piles closeup
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Jeff Ray contemplates the field of bones.
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Victor Costa unloads his pack
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Jared Carpenter unloading bones
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Andy Payne is on his third trip. He plans to return to bring more bones to the meadow in the coming weeks.
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Someone arranged these in the form of a skeleton
On a cloudy winter day, scores of people gathered at Bear Mountain Lodge to carry the ceramic bones created for the One Million Bones Project to their final resting place in a mountain meadow above the lodge.
The One Million Bones Project was started in 2009 by Naomi Natale to bring attention to genocides taking place all over the world. Artists, students, educators, activists and just plain citizens, who wanted to raise awareness about genocide, crafted the ceramic bones. The Project culminated in a laying of the bones on the Mall in Washington D.C.
There will be a dedication of the installment of bones in April of next year at Bear Mountain Lodge.
To find out more about the One Million Bones Project visit http://www.onemillionbones.net/the-project/ or http://theartofrevolution.org