Untitled ("Cheyennes on a visit to the Sioux"), page number 37, from a Chief Killer sketchbook
Chief Killer (Noh-hu-nah-wih), Southern Tsistsistas, 1849 - 1922, Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne), Central Plains, Plains
about mid-1875-mid-1878
Graphite, colored pencil, and red ink on wove sketchbook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 8 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (21.9 × 28.6 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
2007.65.22
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Classification
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, in graphite, upper left: 37; inscribed, in graphite, center: Sioux at home; inscribed, in black ink over graphite, lower center: Cheyennes on a / visit to the Sioux; reverse: number 38
Course History
Center for Cartoon Studies, Steven Bissette, Fall 2019
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
Possibly exhibited Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "The Lansburgh Collection," August 10-31, 2000.
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
Native American Ledger Drawing Book, Morning Star Gallery, Tokyo: Parco Co., Ltd., p. 22 [page not numberd], date unknown.
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. 38, figure 3.4; p. 104, plate 60.
Provenance
Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
Old Number
Lansburgh no.: 21
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