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The Willamette Meteorite has been venerated by the Clackamas people since long before it was removed from its location in the Willamette Valley near the modern city of West Linn, Oregon. [citation needed] In 1902, Ellis Hughes [15] was the first European settler to recognize the meteorite's significance.
The Willamette Meteorite is culturally significant to Clackamas people. The meteorite is called Tomanowos, which translates to "the visitor of heaven". The meteorite was believed to be given from the Sky People and is the unity between sky, earth, and water. Other tribes around the area thought that the meteorite possessed magical powers. [3]
The plat was filed in 1850 in the first plat book of the first office of records on the West Coast and is still in Oregon City. Around 1900, the spa and resort at Wilthoit Springs was a popular tourist destination. [3] In 1902, the Willamette Meteorite was recovered from a field near present-day West Linn.
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It is also believed that the Willamette Meteorite was rafted by flood and ice to the location near West Linn where it was discovered and venerated by the Clackamas people up until its discovery by settlers in 1902, prompting a lawsuit regarding its ownership that reached the Oregon Supreme Court in July of 1903. [6]
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University of Oregon Brown and Black Asteroid is an outdoor sculpture and replica of the Willamette Meteorite by an unknown artist, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] installed outside the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, Oregon , in the United States.