Resin Peace Pole
Four-Sided Resin Peace Pole
It is a little over eight feet tall (100 inches). Bugs don't eat it and it doesn't rot. It can be planted by sliding it over a wooden post or other kind of stake or by burying a foot and a half of it in the ground. Cement would be overkill.
The language on the right is Lakota Sioux
Parade
If you want peacepoles to carry in a parade or use in a ceremony, these are a good choice. They are clean and bright and light weight. If you plant them by sliding them over posts, each year you can lift them off and use them in the ceremony or carry them in the parade again. Wouldn't it be interesting to see a drill team executing maneuvers like a squadron of soldiers but carrying peace poles instead of rifles? (And wouldn't it be funny if people threw beads over them at Mardi Gras?)
At left is a photo of one with 8 languages, animal tracks and an image of the globe around the top. When a peace pole is going to be slid over a post, none of it disappears below ground. So the text and tracks can cover most of the pole. On the one at left some of the bottom was left bare to keep it above snow. If it was being buried, I would have left more of it bare by making the translations smaller.
If you want your peace pole shorter to make it easier to carry or to make it possible to display it indoors under an eight foot ceiling, let me know. There is no charge for cutting it.
Languages on pole at left - Top right: Chinese. Bottom right: Spanish. Bottom left: Hindi.
Language Labels
Something
we have started adding for free to resin poles is labels identifying the languages. We label them in white so that they do not make the pole
too crowded with text. If you
want to know which language is which, the answer is there if you look closely.
That helps add interest to the pole. The closer you get, the more there is to
see. At right you can see
that with the light from this angle, the language label on the left side is
visible, but the language label on the right side is not.
Animal Tracks
If you are putting animal tracks on your peace pole, I think there are better arrangements for them than using them as a replacement for one of the human languages. One way is to put them in a ring around the bottom of the pole, down where the animals are, as seen below. Another way is to place them in the empty spaces between the human languages, as can be seen by clicking here. If you let me put the animal tracks on your peace pole in one of those arrangements, I don't charge you for them and you still have room for the full complement of four or eight human translations.
Dove with Olive Branch
Chartres Labyrinth
At
the risk of providing too many options for committees to deal with, at left is
something else that can be added to your peace pole at no additional charge - a
dove with an olive branch.
At right is the Chartres Labyrinth. We had a few requests for it and are seeing what happens if we offer it as well at no charge.
These do not replace languages. They are put on your peace pole in addition to your languages.
Graphic
Earth
This
is one of two options that does have an additional charge - images of the earth as seen at
left. It is two images of the earth back to back. Since you never can see more
than two sides of a pole at once, you never see more than one image at a time,
but you do see the whole earth whenever you look at the pole. However, you see
the whole earth from a different perspective with each step that you take around
the pole.
Lakota Sioux is the language on the right
Braille
One day I had a forehead slapping moment when I realized the
solution for Braille. Make it white on the white peace pole. Braille does not
need to be seen by sighted people, but does need to be easier to find for
unsighted people. Making it white makes it so that it does not violate visual
aesthetics for sighted people when it is put in the location and made the size
easier to find and read for unsighted people. It lays right along the edge of
the peace pole, so it can sit next to one of the black languages. In this way,
there can be eight other languages on the peace pole, and they can be laid out
in the same way they would if Braille was not on the pole. The Braille sits
alongside one of them nearly invisibly.
This is the other option for which there is an extra charge because of how much
work it is. It is an additional $12.50.
To Order
Resin Peace Pole with 4
translations
is $145
Resin Peace Pole with 8
translations
is $195
Optional images of the earth - $25
Optional Braille - $12.50
Shipping is $35
Contact me by Email or phone:
513-348-4744
Delivery is usually in about three weeks. For a rush charge it can be sooner.
To know how much room to leave blank at the bottom I need to know whether you will be planting it by sliding it over a stake or by burying part of it, and how much snow might be piling up around it.
Text Size
These poles are wider than 4 by 4 wooden posts. That allows me to make the text larger. Usually the text on these is about 30% larger than the text on plastic plaques, as you can see below (showing Cherokee language).
Stands
I have been asked about how to make a stand for indoor display for these enough times to have created a page about that. Click here for it.