Word: headdress
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...portrait of Captain John Smith by Sir Godfrey Kneller was purchased in London and presented to the State of Virginia by 15 dignified citizens. The portrait was hung in the Governor's office in Richmond. It showed the old hero in a cuirass and heavy whiskers; an Oriental headdress covered the scalp preserved to him and Virginia by the love of Pocahontas. This headdress roused the suspicions of Richmond's polished, witty Alexander Weddell, U. S. Ambassador to Argentina...
There are dozens of other new acquisitions being catalogued and arranged. From Fukien, China, the Museum has obtained a model of a fantastic headdress worn by women in the fields and buried with them when they die. To get an actual headdress of this kind would be almost impossible since the Chinese government new forbids their being worn and those that do remain are highly treasured by the natives...
...please Mrs. Hailman. Sculptor Keren's classic nudes, she thought, could not gracefully wear those Indian names. So last week before he departed for Rome young Sculptor Koren gave his figures something else to wear. In plaster he added breech clouts to each, crowned each with a feather headdress. Said...
Posterity will be indebted to Augustus John for the great lineaments of many of Europe's great men. His etching of Yeats as a young man is already famous. His crayon drawing of the late T. E. Lawrence in Arab headdress gives that long-jawed little man all his well-earned dignity. When the practical Lord Leverhulme, soap king of England, cut the head out of John's portrait of him in 1920 so he could get it in his safe, most of the artists and art dealers in London went on strike for 24 hours...
...Washington. Harry Oldperson. 55, and Joe Butterfly. 71, both Blackfoot Indians, gave 30-year-old James Roosevelt a headdress, a Blackfoot membership and a new name: "Eagle Child...