Leatherlips is a twelve-foot-high portrait of the Indigenous Wyandot chief created by Boston artist Ralph Helmick. Made of stacked and mortared native limestone with an opening at the top, it was intended to let visitors physically inhabit the leader’s vantage point as a way of imagining his vision for peace between Indigenous Peoples and white settlers. Local history relates that Chief Leatherlips was executed by fellow tribesmen at a location very near Scioto Park. It was commissioned through Dublin Art in Public Places in 1988 and dedicated in 1990.
