Untitled (Short Bull Raiding Two Horses), page number 4, from a Short Bull notebook
Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela), Lakota / American, about 1845 - 1915
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains
about 1885-1890
Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 7 7/8 × 10 in. (20 × 25.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949
2007.88.1
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, lower left: 4; inscribed, in ink, upper right next to figure: Short Bull; reverse: [not numbered; no drawing]
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. 171, plate 125; p. 191, figure 4.1.
Provenance
Short Bull (about 1845-1915), Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota; given to Natalie Curtis Burlin (1875-1921), about 1909; possibly with Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; given to present collection, 2007.
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