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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 705269, member: 6229&quot;]<b>To The Penny Lady:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hi and thanks for your addendum. It seems there are four or five theories as to who or what Longacre used as his model. Most agree he wanted to show a likeness of a female American Indian. If it was his daughter in a headdress, then it is not a rendering of a real Native-American, if it is of Venus, it is not a real Indian either.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I based my opinion on that the image is an Alagorical representation of Liberty wearing a feathered headdress is the following excerpt from <font face="arial">a letter by James Longacre which resides in the Library Company of Philadelphia (from box 3, folder 6). </font></p><p><font face="arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="arial"></font><font face="Arial">&quot;From the copper shores of Lake Superior, to the silver mountains of Potosi from the Ojibwa to the Aramanian, the feathered tiara is as characteristic of the primitive races of our hemisphere, as the turban is of the Asiatic. Nor is there anything in its decorative character, repulsive to the association of Liberty; more beautiful in itself, to u. It is more appropriate than the Phrygian cap, the emblem rather of the emancipated slave, than of the independent freeman, of those who are able to say &quot;we were never in bondage to any man&quot;. I regard then this emblem of America as a proper and well defined portion of our national inheritance; and having now the opportunity of consecrating it as a memorial of Liberty, ‘our Liberty’, American Liberty; why not use it? One more graceful can scarcely be devised. We have only to determine that it shall be appropriate, and all the world outside of us cannot wrest it from us.&quot;</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font> </p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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