Untitled (Courting), from the "Robert Allen Guthrie Notebook"
Unknown artist ("Guthrie" Notebook), Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century, Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne), Central Plains, Plains
about 1874-1875
Graphite, colored pencil, 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
2007.65.107
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Classification
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscription
Stamped, upper right, in blue ink: LANSBURGH [semi-circle] / 1987 [in graphite, in semi-circle]; reverse: [drawing 2007.65.90]
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
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. 85, plate 41.
Provenance
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1987; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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