Untitled ("Indians Hunting in the Ind. Terr."), page number 35, from a Chief Killer sketchbook
Chief Killer (Noh-hu-nah-wih), Southern Tsistsistas, 1849 - 1922
Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
about mid-1875-mid-1878
Colored pencil, graphite, and red ink on wove sketchbook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 8 5/8 × 11 5/16 in. (21.9 × 28.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W '18 Fund
2008.70.1
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
Numbered, in graphite, upper left: 35; inscribed, in ink, lower right: "Indians Hunting in / the Ind. Terr." [probably a later addition, not in the artist's hand]; reverse: [no drawing]
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
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.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12 - July 22, 2022.
Publication History
Native American Ledger Drawing Book, Morning Star Gallery, Tokyo: Parco Co., Ltd., p. 22 [page not numberd], date unknown.
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. 103, plate 59; p. 202, figure 5.3.
Provenance
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; sold to present collection, 2008.
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