Statue of white woman holding hatchet and scalps sparks backlash in New England
Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans
The statue is the earliest publicly funded monument to a woman in the US.
It stands in the out-of-the-way town of Boscawen, New Hampshire. It shows a woman holding a hatchet in one hand and a fistful of scalps in the other. Her name is Hannah Duston.
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