Miss America, (sculpture).

Miss America, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Miss America, (sculpture).

Sculpture: marble; Base: marble.

Sculpture: approx. 4 ft. 5 in. x 1 ft. 9 in. x 1 ft. 3 in.; Base: approx. 1 ft. 11 in. x 1 ft. 11 in. x 1 ft. 8 in.

Full-length female Indian huntress stands holding a heavy-framed bow in her proper left hand. The proper right arm is upraised and holds a now missing object. She pins a reptilian creature to the ground with her proper right foot. She wears a monkey skin draped over her proper right shoulder, a round feathered crown and a feathered skirt. A quiver of arrows is fastened to her proper right hip.

Figure female -- Full length

Ethnic -- Indian

Animal -- Reptile

Dress -- Ethnic -- Indian Dress

Occupation -- Hunter

Allegory -- Place -- America

Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama -- Huntsville

Coates, Robert E., 2205 DeRussey Road, Huntsville, Alabama 35801

This sculpture may have been one of several erected in Tilton, New Hampshire by Charles E. Tilton from 1879 to 1889. An attached article from a New Hampshire newspaper includes a picture of the identical sculpture on Main Street, in front of the Town Hall in Tilton, ca. 1961. While there is no information as to whether the sculpture still stands in Tilton, there is a statement that some of that town's smaller sculpture are no longer extant.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alabama survey, 1993.

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Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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