Untitled (A Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Bowstring Society Warrior Counts Coup on a Non-Native Enemy), from the "Robert Allen Guthrie Notebook"
Unknown artist ("Guthrie" Notebook), Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century, Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne), Central Plains, Plains
about 1874-1875
Graphite and transparent and opaque watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 5 11/16 × 7 3/16 in. (14.5 × 18.2 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
2007.65.10
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Classification
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscription
Reverse: [no drawing]
Course History
Center for Cartoon Studies, Steven Bissette, Fall 2019
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.
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. 25, figure 2.6; p. 81, plate 37.
Provenance
Possibly from the ledger book owned by Robert Allen Guthrie, Topeka, Kansas, 1874; Joe Rivera, Mission, South Dakota [in partnership with Dennis Lessard, scholar of Native American Art]; to H. Malcolm Grimmer, Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1981; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1988; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
Old Number
Lansburgh no.: 10
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