Untitled (Short Bull in Battle against the Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)), page number 23, from a Short Bull notebook
Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela), Lakota / American, about 1845 - 1915
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains
about 1885-1890
Colored pencil, ink, watercolor and graphite on wove blue lined notebook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 7 11/16 × 10 in. (19.6 × 25.4 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
2007.65.64
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 iron gall ink, upper left, in script: Pawnea [sic] tribe of Indian [sic]; upper right above figure: Short Bull; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 23; on reverse, lower right, in graphite: 156 [no drawing]
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.
Native Paths, American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, May 7, 1998 - January 2, 2000.
Publication History
Allen Wardwell, Editor, Native Paths, American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, p. 19, ill. no. 6.
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. 174, plate 128.
Provenance
Short Bull (about 1845-1915), Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota; given to Natalie Curtis Burlin (1875-1921), about 1906; to her husband, Paul Burlin (1886-1969), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1922; Sotheby's New York, Fine American Indian Art, December 2, 1987, lot 141 (23); Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Charles and Valerie Diker, New York, New York; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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