Untitled (A Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Warrior Counts Coup on an Enemy), page number 55, from the "Frederic H. Douglas Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Douglas" Ledger), Tsistsistas / American, active mid - late 19th century
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
1860s
Ink, colored pencil and watercolor on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 7 3/8 × 12 5/16 in. (18.7 × 31.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund and the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2007.26.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left: 55; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right: 56 [no drawing]
Exhibition History
Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 11, 2004-May 15, 2005.
Possibly exhibited Kenneth Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring 1990.
Publication History
Mike Cowdrey, The Frederic H. Douglas Ledger manuscript, June 15, 2000, p. 9, ill.
Barbara Thompson, Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2004, p. 4, fig. 1.
Colin G. Calloway, Editor, Ledger Narratives, The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (published in cooperation with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire), 2012, p. 17, figure 1.9; p. 46, plate 2.
Provenance
Ledger Book, about 1865; collected by Dr. Frederic Huntington Douglas (1897-1956), Denver, Colorado, date unknown; to the Estate of Dr. Frederic Huntington Douglas, Denver, Colorado; [with] Kenneth Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring 1990; [pages removed from ledger, date unknown]; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990; sold to present collection, 2007.
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