Untitled (Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Warrior Rescuing a Wounded Comrade), from the "Robert Allen Guthrie Notebook"
Unknown artist ("Guthrie" Notebook), Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1874-1875
Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 7 3/16 × 5 11/16 in. (18.2 × 14.5 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
2007.65.89
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
Stamped, on reverse, in blue ink, lower right: LANSBURGH [in semi-circle] / 1987 [in graphite, in center of semi-circle]; reverse: [no drawiing]
Course History
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Center for Cartoon Studies, Steven Bissette, Fall 2019
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, ill. p. i; p. 82, plate 38.
Provenance
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1987; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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