Chief Head Sculptures Leatherlips Monument Dublin, Ohio The sculpture is made out of native limestone slabs, and created by artist Ralph Helmick.From the Historical Collections of Ohio, by Henry Howe, Vole I, page 611, copy write 1888 "This grave supposedly marks the final resting place of the great Wyandot chief She-ta-yah-ron-ya, know to the whites as Leatherlips. According to tradition, Leatherlips was exectued at this exact site on June 1, 1810 for practicising the forbidden art of witchcraft, but historians tend to agree that the real motive behind his killing was more political.
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