Untitled (A Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Bowstring Society Warrior), page number 53, from the "Frederic H. Douglas Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Douglas" Ledger), American / Tsistsistas, active mid - late 19th century, Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne), Central Plains, Plains
1860s
Ink and watercolor on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 7 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (18.6 × 31.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: 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
2007.65.1
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Classification
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscription
Preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left: 53; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right: 54 [no drawing]
Course History
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
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. 7, ill.
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. 45, plate 1.
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; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
Old Number
Lansburgh no.: 1
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