![]() ![]() It is also the sculpt referenced for the burn marks on Major Toht's hand. The first design shown on screen was created at Elstree Studios by Ron Punter and is the sculpt used predominantly throughout the film including The Raven and Map Room sequences. There were two different versions of the prop created by the art department. However, the book didn't see publication as the company brought a halt to their production of Indiana Jones comics early in Lost Horizon's development. ![]() An attempt to reincorporate the discarded Chinese warlord, now based out of Tibet, into the backstory of Indiana Jones and his mentor Abner Ravenwood first acquiring the headpice was made with the Dark Horse Comics story Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon. While the idea of the headpiece being in two was dropped during rewrites of the screenplay, much of the sequence would later be recycled for the opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. While the second was in the possession of Marion Ravenwood in Nepal as in the final film, the first lay in Shanghai, in the private museum collection of Chinese warlord Tengtu Hok. The headpiece to the Staff of Ra was conceptualized for Raiders of the Lost Ark as being in two parts. Their success was fleeting, however, as Belloq and the Nazis were waiting at the surface, holding Marion hostage in exchange for the Ark. Later, Sallah and Indiana forged deeper into the Well of Souls, braving a colony of asps in order to recover the Ark. Foisting the true headpiece atop a properly measured staff, Indiana marveled at how sunlight created a spectrum of red light showing the Ark's correct burial site. Indiana, using the information on the headpiece, was able to locate the Well of Souls, which he infiltrated disguised as a native worker. As a result, Belloq's counterfeit headpiece caused the Nazis to build an overlarge staff, which led Indiana and Sallah to discover that "they're digging in the wrong place." However, Toht failed to realize the proper headpiece was engraved on both sides. However, the headpiece had become extraordinarily hot having fallen into the fireplace, and the medallion scarred Toht's hand, leaving the imprint of the markings on his palm that allowed French archaeologist René Belloq to create his own headpiece for the Nazis to locate the Ark. The headpiece was momentarily in the possession of Nazi Gestapo agent Toht, during a fight at Ravenwood's bar. Marion sold the headpiece to Indiana Jones for three thousand dollars when he was searching for the Ark of the Covenant in 1936. Together they tracked the medallion to a monastery where the thief believed the artifact was the key to treasure there. She chased the thief to Tibet and teamed up with a member of the Adventure Society she met along the way. In 1934, Marion was robbed of the headpiece by a mercenary. The headpiece was discovered by the archeologist Abner Ravenwood in 1926, and later came into the hands of his daughter Marion, who wore it around her neck as a medallion. The instructions written on the headpiece stated that the staff should be "six kadams high." However, the obverse of the headpiece held specific instructions that the builder was to subtract one kadam out of respect for the Hebrew God. However, the headpiece contained instructions on how to make a new staff. The actual Staff of Ra, in and of itself just a simple shaft of wood, was apparently long lost to the ages.
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