Untitled (Three Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Women and a Man and a Horse), page number 154, from the "Arrow's Elk Society Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Arrow" Ledger), Southern Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century
Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1874-1875
Graphite and colored pencil on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 6 1/16 × 14 3/4 in. (15.4 × 37.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Mary Alice Kean Raynolds and David R. W. Raynolds, Class of 1949, in honor of Susan and James Wright, 16th President of Dartmouth College
2008.71.3
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
Drawn, in graphite, above second figure from the left: glyph [half figure]; above third figure from the left: glyph [horse]; in upper right: glyph [arrow]; preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right [proper left]: 154; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left [proper right]: 153 [no drawing]
Course History
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Center for Cartoon Studies, Dan Nott, Fall 2021
NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022
Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2-December 19, 2010.
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-April 21, 2019.
Possibly exhibited Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Summer 1999.
Publication History
Mike Cowdrey, Arrow's Elk Society Ledger: A Southern Cheyenne Record Of The 1870's, Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1999, pp. 198-201, no.154, ill., p.200.
Plains Indian Ledger Art Project, ed. Ross Frank, 2005, University of California San Diego, 22 January 2009
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. 71, plate 27; p. 240, figure 7.7.
Provenance
The Arrow's Elk Society Ledger Book was collected by Sallie C. Maffet, Darlington Agency, the Agency of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), 1882; in the collection of the Maffet family by descent; sold at Sotheby's, New York, 1997; sold to Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; [pages removed from the book, Summer 1999]; sold to present collection, 2008.
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