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A sculptor from this country depicted a seated man with a toothed necklace carving weapons next to his daughter in The Old Arrow Maker. The “Marmorean Flock” was a group of female artists from this country who worked in Rome. Those artists from this country included one who elaborated a bust of a Palmyrene into her sculpture Zenobia in Chains and one known as “Wildfire” who sculpted The Death of Cleopatra. Another Neoclassical sculptor from this country won fame by depicting a nude woman chained up by (10[1])Turkish captors in The Greek Slave. This country, (10[1])which minted a Neoclassical “double eagle” gold (10[2])coin, was home to Edmonia (10[1])Lewis and Hiram Powers. For 10 points, name this adopted home of the Irish-born sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who made the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. ■END■ (10[1]0[8])

ANSWER: United States [or America or US or USA or United States of America] (Harriet Hosmer sculpted Zenobia in Chains.)
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