Untitled (Horses and Buffalo), page number 240, from the "Vincent Price Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Price" Ledger), Tsistsistas and/or Inunaina / American, active late 19th century
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne) and / or Inunaina (Arapaho)
Central Plains
Plains
late 19th century
Graphite on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 5 3/4 × 11 5/8 in. (14.6 × 29.6 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
2007.65.104
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
Preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right [proper left]: [2]40; inscribed, on reverse, upper left, in graphite: LOW [encirlcled]; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left [proper right]: 239 [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. 130, plate 86.
Provenance
Ledger Book drawn about 1879-1882; collected by an unidentified dealer, Laguna Beach, California; sold to Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (1911-1993), California, early 1960's; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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