Untitled (A Gaigwa (Kiowa) Warrior Counts Coups on the Cavalry) and Untitled (A Soldier in Battle with Gaigwa (Kiowa) Warrior), from an unidentified sketchbook

Unknown artist ("Kiowa-Mexican"), Ka'igwu and/or Mexican / American, active late 19th century
Ka'igwu (Kiowa) and/or Mexican
Central Plains
Plains

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late 19th century

Graphite, colored pencil (?), crayon, and ink on wove sketchbook paper

Sheet (Irreg.): 9 × 13 3/16 in. (22.9 × 33.5 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

2007.65.35ab

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

Inscribed, in black ink, upper center: 4 U.S. Soldiers against [struck out]; inscribed, in black ink, upper left to right: A Scene from Genl Custer's Battle of the / Washita where [20 cross out] Major Elliot and 20 of / his men were cut off and all killed; watermark: J. Whatman / 1858; reverse: [drawing 2007.65.36]

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

Mike Cowdrey, The Mark Lansburgh Collection of Kiowa Drawings, manuscript, San Luis Obispo, California, January 2000, p. 29-31, ill.

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. 28, figure 2.11; p. 142, plate 97.

Provenance

Possibly with Morning Star Gallery, New Mexico, date unknown; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.

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