Untitled (A Warrior Counts Coup on an Enemy), page number 220, 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

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late 19th century

Graphite and colored pencil on laid ledger paper

Sheet: 5 3/4 × 11 11/16 in. (14.6 × 29.7 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

2007.65.48

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]: 220; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left [proper right]: 219 [no drawing]

Exhibition History

"Thinking Through Art", Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, January 10-May 4, 2012.

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. 126, plate 82.

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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