Totem Pole Room, Cave of the Mounds, Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Much like the previous image, this one also has an ambiguity of orientation from the lighting and symmetrical nature of many cave formations. In this case, the room is decorated with stalactites and stalagmites which have merged back into solid columns like the one shown here.

Photo by Diemer, Madison, Wisconsin


It is possible to determine orientation again by the flooring provided for tourists at the lower left of the image.
The description simply states: The Totem Pole Room at Cave of the Mounds, Blue Mounds, Wis.
This photo, like the others in this series, dates from the 1940s.

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