Sacred Cod
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La Morue sacrée du Massachusetts (en anglais : Sacred Cod of Massachusetts ou Sacred Cod) est une sculpture sur bois représentant une morue, qui est suspendue dans la salle où se tiennent les séances de la Chambre des représentants du Massachusetts, dans la Massachusetts State House, à Boston.
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The Sacred Cod is a four-foot-eleven-inch (150 cm) carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, "painted to the life", hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House—"a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth"(i.e. Massachusetts, of which cod is officially the "historic and continuing symbol").The Sacred Cod has gone through as many as three incarnations over three centuries: the first(if it really existed—the authoritative source calling it a "prehistoric creature of tradition")was lost in a 1747 fire; the second disappeared during the American Revolution; and the third, installed in 1784, is the one seen in the House chamber today.
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A view from below of a carved, painted fish.
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The Sacred Cod in its "natural habitat".
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"Humble the subject and homely the design; yet this painted image bears on its finny front a majesty greater than the dignity that art can lend to graven gold or chiselled marble", said an 1895 paean by
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Leslie Jones photo showing the Sacred Cod with Harvard official Charles Apted, who had recovered it from "Codnappers"
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News photo (Leslie Jones, Boston Herald-Traveler, 1933) showing the scene of the crime
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La Morue sacrée du Massachusetts (en anglais : Sacred Cod of Massachusetts ou Sacred Cod) est une sculpture sur bois représentant une morue, qui est suspendue dans la salle où se tiennent les séances de la Chambre des représentants du Massachusetts, dans la Massachusetts State House, à Boston. La sculpture, qui symbolise l'importance historique de la pêche pour l'économie de l'État du Massachusetts, mesure environ un mètre et demi et est taillée dans une seule pièce de bois de pin. Il y a eu trois Morues sacrées successives, celle actuellement en place a été sculptée en 1784 et offerte à la Chambre une année plus tard par John Rowe, un marchand de Boston. Symbole du caractère sacré de celle-ci, l'exemplaire actuel a été subtilisé pendant deux jours en 1933 par des étudiants de Harvard, provoquant alors une panique locale et des recherches policières approfondies avant d'être rendu.
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The Sacred Cod is a four-foot-eleven-inch (150 cm) carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, "painted to the life", hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House—"a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth"(i.e. Massachusetts, of which cod is officially the "historic and continuing symbol").The Sacred Cod has gone through as many as three incarnations over three centuries: the first(if it really existed—the authoritative source calling it a "prehistoric creature of tradition")was lost in a 1747 fire; the second disappeared during the American Revolution; and the third, installed in 1784, is the one seen in the House chamber today. "Sacred Cod" is not a formal name but a nickname which appeared in 1895, soon after the carving was termed "the sacred emblem" by a House committee appointed "to investigate the significance of the emblem [which] has kept its place under all administrations, and has looked upon outgoing and incoming legislative assemblies, for more than one hundred years". Soon sacred cod was being used in reference to actual codfish as well, in recognition of the creature's role in building Massachusetts' prosperity and influence since early colonial times. In 1933 the Sacred Cod was briefly "Cod-napped" by editors of the Harvard Lampoon, prompting police to drag the Charles River and search an airplane landing in New Jersey. In 1968 it was again taken briefly, this time by students at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A fish figure is displayed in the State House Senate chamber as well—a brass casting (sometimes called the Holy Mackerel) above its central chandelier.
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