{"id":632848,"date":"2026-10-16T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632848\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:28:11","slug":"mastodon-sculpture-on-display-in-highgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632848\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon sculpture on display in Highgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large wooden sculpture of a mastodon is now on display in Highgate.<\/p>\n<p>The art piece is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chatham-kent.ca\/visitck\/doandsee\/outdooractivities\/Pages\/Wood-Carvings.aspx\">one of many<\/a> being installed in communities across Chatham-Kent (CK) in an attempt to encourage people to visit the entire municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The mastodon was chosen to represent Highgate as bones from a real mastodon were discovered in the area in 1886. They are currently <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.statemuseum.nd.gov\/blog\/how-move-mastodon\">on display in North Dakota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CK Mayor Darrin Canniff told CK News Today that he sees this as the centrepiece among all the sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we put our pamphlet out about [all the sculptures], this will be on the front cover,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The piece was created by Bothwell&#8217;s Mike Winia, along with Paul Frenette and Jacob Frenette, the father-son duo on HGTV&#8217;s show &#8216;Carver Kings.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Winia said the sculpture was one of the biggest the three have ever worked on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve done some taller ones, but not this massive. [It&#8217;s] at least a couple of tonnes,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The piece took around 200 hours to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the sculpture is a plaque sharing the history of the mastodon fossil discovered in Highgate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mynewstoday.ca\/i\/EkEElGzk\/740\" alt=\"\"\/>Plaque sharing the history of the mastodon fossil found in Highgate. (Photo by Jaryn Vecchio)<\/p>\n<p>The piece is impossible to miss when travelling to Highgate as it&#8217;s located right at the main intersection leading into the community, across from the Mary Webb Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large wooden sculpture of a mastodon is now on display in Highgate. The art piece is one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-632848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}