Bust length portrait of a female indian, her left breast exposed, and carrying a spear in her right hand. In her hair is a jeweled fillet, trimmed with feathers, and in her right ear she wears a lozenge-shaped jeweled pendant earring. On her back she carries a quiver of arrows. Her head is inclined slightly to the left and turned directly toward the viewer. Date: before 1720. Dimensions: 43.5 x 34 cm (17 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.). Medium: pastel on paper mounted on canvas. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Personification of America, before 1720 (CH 18429645-2)
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