An explosion blew up the ship as Indy successfully escaped with the cross, and shortly thereafter returned to his normal occupation as an archaeology professor at an unnamed American college, and donated the cross to a museum run by Dr.Neely (Chill Wills) on his horse-drawn ice-wagon rounds.She sits on the back of the wagon, sucking a piece of ice and singing a few bars of "Brighten the Corner.This was Kubrick""s ninth feature film, appearing between2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)andBarry Lyndon (1975).The shaman believed that the threesome were providentially sent there by the Hindu god Shiva to retrieve their sacred stone ("Bring back to us").