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Part of the carved “spirit tree” that stood majestically in the Bois-des-Esprits forest in Royalwood for the best part of two decades has a new home at the Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum.<\/p>\n

According to a joint news release from the museum and Save Our Seine, the famed tree known as Woody-Mhitik was carved from the base of an elm tree — its lower trunk was stripped and salvaged after its crown was removed because of Dutch elm disease in 2004.  <\/p>\n

Local carvers Walter Mirosh and Robert Leclair transformed the tree into two spirits — one looking up into the Bois-des-Esprits’ leafy canopy, and the other facing an oxbow of the nearby Seine River. Time finally caught up with the legendary tree this past summer.<\/p>\n

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Supplied photo\nWoody-Mhitik has a new home at the Mus\u00e9e de Saint-Boniface Museum.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n

The museum (494 Tache Ave.) is now exhibiting Woody-Mhitik’s oxbow face in its chapel room, along with interpretive signage that accompanied the sculpture in its original location in the forest. Organizers say the tree succumbed to old age and crumbled to the ground in August, and although the canopy was beyond salvation, longtime SOS supporter and former board member Marcel Ritchot retrieved and restored the oxbow face.   <\/p>

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Supplied photo\nTime finally caught up with the legendary \"spirit tree\" tree this past summer.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":297033051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-575951231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lance"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Staff writer","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/lance\/2021\/12\/20\/legendary-spirit-tree-remnant-has-new-home","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Legendary \u201cspirit tree\u201d remnant has new home","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/lance\/2021\/12\/20\/legendary-spirit-tree-remnant-has-new-home","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/lance\/2021\/12\/20\/legendary-spirit-tree-remnant-has-new-home"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/sf-esprits2-supplied-dec22.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/sf-esprits2-supplied-dec22.jpg"},"articleSection":"The Lance","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2021-12-20T21:10:00Z","datePublished":"2021-12-20T21:10:00Z","dateModified":"2021-12-20T21:19:09Z"},"rendered":"