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Word: warbonnet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Artist Saint Gaudens modeled for the U.S. Treasury. He designed a $10 gold piece with a Liberty head, to which, at President Roosevelt's behest, he added an Indian warbonnet. This is known as the Mary Cunningham design- posed by an Irish maid. The Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece, showing a full-length Liberty, was modeled from a Swedish woman up to the neck, and the profile head from the Irish model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Goddess | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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