Untitled (Undertaking the Sacred Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Sun Dance), page number 105 and Untitled (Sketch of a Man Reading at his Desk), page number 106, from the "Old White Woman Ledger"

Unknown artist ("Old White Woman" Ledger), Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains

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about 1880-1890

Graphite and colored pencil on wove ledger paper

Sheet (Irreg.): 7 5/16 × 11 13/16 in. (18.6 × 30 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

2007.65.76ab

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 [proper right]: 105; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right [proper left]: 106 [drawing 2007.65.77]

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.

Possible: "The Lansburgh Collection," Nedra Matteucci Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 11-31, 2000.

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. 30, figure 2.14; p. 154, plate 108.

Provenance

From the formerly bound Old White Woman Ledger (46 pages); Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.

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