I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the gigantic cigar store Indian who stands atop a building on South Pulaski (it’s sometimes called “The Indian Building.”)
I am curious to know how tall the statue is? I tried to call Capital Cigar Store using a number I found online, but it has been disconnected. I may try to call the Midwest Eye Clinic (in the same building) tomorrow to see if anyone there has that information.
Meanwhile, does anybody here have any ideas about how I can find out how tall the statue is?
There’s a fairly straight-on photo at this sight (click to enlarge it):
There is a door just below him, and he looks about 2.5 times as tall as the door (head to toe). If we assume the door is about seven feet high, that makes the Injun about 17-18 feet tall.
I concur with jnglmassiv. The base is about the height of the women in the photo below the statue, and the statue, with arm raise, is about three times her height. Say the women is 5 feet tall, that places the statue itself in the 15 feet range +/- a foot or so.
(As an engineer, I feel compelled to point out that the distance from the statue allows us to mostly neglect perspective).
As another engineer, we could always use the old “similar triangles” trick. Go down there on a sunny day, and measure the length of Tonto’s shadow. Then hold up a stick of known length and measure *its *shadow. The ratio of the stick to its shadow will be the same as the ratio of the injun to his shadow.