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Every Sioux in the world seemed to be there; beyond the tarpaulin canopy where we were to sit they squatted in row on endless row, brown painted faces grim and unmoving, war-bonnets and eagle feathers stirring in the breeze; every knoll and slope for a quarter of a mile was covered with them.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Most of them were naked, and as their persons were painted in gaudy colors and decorated with strips of red flannel, red blankets and gay war-bonnets, their appearance presented a scene of picturesque barbarism, fascinating but repulsive.
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Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Every Sioux in the world seemed to be there; beyond the tarpaulin canopy where we were to sit they squatted in row on endless row, brown painted faces grim and unmoving, war-bonnets and eagle feathers stirring in the breeze; every knoll and slope for a quarter of a mile was covered with them.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Every Sioux in the world seemed to be there; beyond the tarpaulin canopy where we were to sit they squatted in row on endless row, brown painted faces grim and unmoving, war-bonnets and eagle feathers stirring in the breeze; every knoll and slope for a quarter of a mile was covered with them.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Most of them were naked, and as their persons were painted in gaudy colors and decorated with strips of red flannel, red blankets and gay war-bonnets, their appearance presented a scene of picturesque barbarism, fascinating but repulsive.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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All we could see of them were the brilliant feathers of their war-bonnets, but we got the full effect of their reception in the music and the cheers.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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All we could see of them were the brilliant feathers of their war-bonnets, but we got the full effect of their reception in the music and the cheers.
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