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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 705922, member: 66&quot;]The one dollar gold pieces, and the three dollar gold&nbsp; are the same portrait as that on the &quot;indian head cent&quot; just with different treatment of the hair and different headresses.&nbsp; Longacre used the same basic portrait for all of his coins.&nbsp; Saint-Gaudens eagleas also not an actual portrait of a Native American, but once again an allegorical portrait with a stylized Native American headress.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the 1899 $5 silver certificate, the indian&#039;s name was not One Papa it was Ta-to-ka-in-yna-ka or Running Antelope.&nbsp; He was a Sioux indian of the Oncpapa tribe.&nbsp; The headress was a war bonnet of the Pawnee, a rival tribe of the Oncpapa.&nbsp; The original portrait of Running Antelope did have him wearing&nbsp; a feathered headdress of the Oncpapa tribe but the powers that be in Washington decided it wasn&#039;t impressive enough and hence the change to the wrong headdress.&nbsp; The was the image the engraving was made from.</p><p><img src="http://www.beeslife.com/currency/silver_certificate/rab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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