Untitled (Fort Marion Prisoners and a Non-Native Man Catch a Shark), from an Ohettoint sketchbook
Ohettoint, Ka'igwu / American, 1852 - 1934
Ka'igwu (Kiowa)
Southern Plains
about mid-1875-mid-1878
Graphite and colored pencil on wove sketchbook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 8 3/4 × 11 1/4 in. (22.2 × 28.5 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
2007.65.16
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
Reverse: [drawing 2007.65.17]
Course History
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Center for Cartoon Studies, Steven Bissette, Fall 2019
NAS 30.19, Indigistory, Gordon Henry, Fall 2019
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022
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.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–April 11, 2022.
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. 93, plate 49; p. 196, figure 4.7.
Provenance
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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