In the 1920s and 30s, sweetly smiling Indian maidens (with bare
shoulders, and bare from the knees down) became popular calendar art.  In
1936, Edward Mason Eggleston restored some bare-breasted authenticity in
The Flaming Arrow.  But that was as far as his authenticity went.  Women had
begun covering their breasts before the Sioux war bonnet was invented.  Only
men wore it, and Sioux of neither sex traveled in a Pacific Ocean canoe.  This is
fantasy art.


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