Untitled (A Crazy Dog Society Warrior), page number 172 from the "Frank Henderson Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Frank Henderson" Ledger), Southern Inunaina and/or Southern Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century
Southern Inunaina (Arapaho) and / or Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1882
Graphite and colored pencil on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 5 5/16 × 11 7/8 in. (13.5 × 30.2 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
2007.65.51
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 graphite, left of figure: [name glyph; man on horseback]; preprinted, ledger page number, in blue ink upper right [proper left]: 172; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left: [proper right] 171 [no drawing]
Course History
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2013
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2013
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2014
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2014
NAS 15, HIST 15, American Indians and American Expansion: 1800 to 1924, Colin Calloway, Spring 2014
ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
NAS 38/HIST 38.02, Lewis and Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38/HIST 38.02, Lewis and Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway 1, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 15.01/HIST 15.01, American Indian and Expansion: 1800-1924, Colin Calloway, Spring 2022
NAIS 38.01/HIST 38.02, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
American Pictographic Images: Historical Works on Paper by the Plains Indians, Alexander Gallery, New York, New York, May 25-June 22, 1988; Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 19-September 16, 1988.
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
Karen Daniels Peterson, American Pictographic Images: Historical Works on Paper by the Plains Indians, New York: Alexander Gallery and Sante Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1988, no.172.
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. 17, figure 1.8; p. 165, plate 119.
Provenance
Ledger Book [named for Hinono'eiteen (Frank Henderson,1862-1885), one of the artists], Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Darlington, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), completed about 1882; given [sent] to his friend Martha Ker Underwood (1823-1890), Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1882; to her grandniece, Josephine [Mrs. James B.] Underwood Ritter (1891-1985), Carlisle, Pennsylvania; purchased by Alexander Aceredo, Alexander Gallery, New York, New York, 1987; [pages removed from ledger]; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1988; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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