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    Posted by Nellie on October 10, 2012, 6:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Romanian unknown tiara"


    Dawn- I think you are just the person to research this for us in the US press. Perhaps The New York Times to start with.

    Queen Marie arrived in New York in October 1926. She travelled across America by train - the Royal Roumanian.
    In North Dakota she wanted to meet the farmers. "After the farmers came the cowboys and Indians."
    "...was adopted into the Sioux nation as a "war woman" ".

    I am quoting from The Last Romantic.

    Over to you Dawn.

    Edit: I seem to be confusing Queen Helen and Queen Marie !!

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    : I agree with you, Nellie. It does look like
    : the Native American pattern.
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    : A band of beading on open mesh tissue.
    : The design looks like a series of symbols or
    : hieroglyphs.
    : And I cannot help thinking American Indian?


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