Untitled (A Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Warrior Raiding Two Horses) and Untitled (An Unfinished Sketch of a Buffalo), from an unidentified sketchbook ("Lance" sketchbook)
Unknown artist ("Lance" sketchbook), possibly Tsistsistas / American, active mid - late 19th century
possibly Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
late 1860s-early 1870s
Ink, colored pencil, and ink wash on paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 6 1/8 × 8 11/16 in. (15.5 × 22 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
2007.65.87ab
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
Reverse: [drawing 2007.65.88]
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.
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. 57, plate 13.
Provenance
Possibly with Morning Star Gallery, New Mexico, date unknown; [Important American Indian Art, Sale 8317, lot 330, Christie's, New York, December 1, 1999 (ex-collection, Mark Lansburgh)]; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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