Untitled (A Horse and Mule), page number 47 and Untitled (A Warrior Fires Upon a Fleeing Enemy), page number 48,, from the "Peter W. Edwards Ledger"

Unknown artist ("Edwards" Ledger), Southern Inunaina and / or Southern Tsistsistas / American, active mid - late 19th century
Southern Inunaina (Arapaho) and / or Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains

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1860s

Graphite and colored pencil on laid ledger paper

Sheet (Irreg.): 7 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (19.4 × 31.5 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

2007.65.4ab

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 left: 47; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right: 48 [drawing 2007.65.5]

Exhibition History

Possibly exhibited Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Summer 1999.

The Edwards Ledger Drawings: Folk Art by Arapaho Warriors, David A. Schorsch, New York, New York, January 16-March 14, 1990.

Publication History

Petersen, Karen Daniels, The Edwards Ledger Drawings: Folk Art by Arapaho Warriors. New York: David A. Schorsch, Inc., 1990.

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. 50, plate 6.

Provenance

Ledger book collected by Peter W. Edwards (1822/24-1872), Waukegan, Illinois; to his eldest daughter, Ida Edwards; to her son, George Williams; to his son, G. Kent Williams; with David A. Schorsch, New York, 1990; with H. Malcolm Grimmer, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.

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