Indian Giver by Peter Wolf Toth

Indian Giver
by Peter Wolf Toth

Peter Toth is a renowned Hungarian-born American sculptor, who immigrated to the United States and settled in Akron, Ohio. He later studied art at Ohio University. He created a series of sculptures called Trail of the Whispering Giants to honor Native Americans. 

Toth presents not only his work of sculptures in his book Indian Giver, but moreover the intent of his dedication to honor and pay tribute to the First-Nation Native American Tribal History of the United States & Americas.

Toth completed his first sculpture, of stone, in La Jolla, California in February 1972. The sculpture of a Native American head, measuring nearly 6 feet in height from chin to forehead, was carved into a sandstone cliff located between Marine Street and Windansea Beach, and represented three months of work.

Toth has replaced some destroyed sculptures with new ones, but not all. Peter Toth's mission to carve a "Whispering Giant" in all 50 United States was completed in May 1988, when he finished sculpture #58 in Hawaii.

"I study the Indians of the area, then visualize an Indian within the log. It is a composite of all the native people of the state." 
- Peter Wolf Toth

Toth continues to plan further sculptures in other countries, and also spends time making repairs and performing maintenance on the existing sculptures. He has created replacement sculptures where statues have been damaged.