DC heat melts head off wax replica of Abraham Lincoln

The head from the statue is now under repairs, leaving a wire sticking out of the 16th president's neck.

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The legs followed soon, leaving the torso and turning into blobs. The chair sank into the ground.

The head from the six-foot wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial is now under repairs, leaving behind a wire sticking out of the 16th president's neck.

The memorial rests on the site of Camp Barker in Washington DC - a Civil War-era refugee camp that housed formerly enslaved and freed African Americans - now home to an elementary school.

It was placed outside of Garrison Elementary School as part of The Wax Monument Series by Virginia-based artist Sandy Williams IV.

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