Untitled (A Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) or Inunaina (Arapaho) Warrior Counts Coup on a Non-Native Enemy), page number 18, from the "Carl S. Dentzel Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Dentzel" Ledger), Southern Tsistsistas and/or Southern Inunaina / American, active late 19th century
Southern Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) and/or Southern Inunaina (Arapaho)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1875-1878
Graphite and colored pencil on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 6 × 14 13/16 in. (15.3 × 37.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949; and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College
2007.65.12
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in script, in brown ink, lower center, below horse: white man [white man's hat]; inscribed, in brown ink, upper right, next to warrior: Cheyenne / (wolf coming out); drawn, in graphite above script [animal name glyph]; preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right: 18; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left: 17 [no drawing]
Publication History
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. 22, figure 2.2; p. 87, plate 43.
Provenance
Ledger Book drawn about 1875; collected in Fort Reno, Indian Territory [El Reno, Oklahoma], in 1878; collected by Dr. Carl Schaefer Dentzel (1913-1980), date unknown; Morning Star Gallery, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico, possibly after 1980; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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