Face Unveiled on Crazy Horse Tribute
The completed face of the colossal Crazy Horse Memorial was unveiled on Thunderhead Mountain, 50 years after the project began. The face, 87 1/2 feet by 58 feet, was revealed from beneath a white parachute-like cover in a ceremony that drew several hundred people. The finished work will depict Crazy Horse astride his horse. The sculpture will be 563 feet high and 641 feet long, taller than the Washington Monument and almost twice the size of the Statue of Liberty. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski died in 1982 at age 74; family members completed the face. There is no estimate of when the sculpture will be done.
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