Untitled (Honoree in the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Kit Fox Society Social Dance), page number 94, from the "Arrow's Elk Society Ledger"

Unknown artist ("Arrow" Ledger), Southern Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century
Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains

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about 1874-1875

Graphite and colored pencil on laid ledger paper

Sheet (Irreg.): 6 1/16 × 14 13/16 in. (15.4 × 37.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, in honor of Jim Yong Kim, 17th President of Dartmouth College

2009.45

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 right [proper left]: 94; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left [proper right]: 93 [no drawing]

Course History

NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023

Exhibition History

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

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

Mike Cowdrey, Arrow's Elk Society Ledger: A Southern Cheyenne Record Of The 1870's, Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1999, pp. 132-138, no. 94, ill., p.132.

Plains Indian Ledger Art Project, ed. Ross Framl, 2005, University of California San Diego, 22 January 2009; http://www.plainsledgerart.org/view.pila?PLATE_ID=1726&top=

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. 66, plate 22; p. 248, figure 7.19.

Provenance

The Arrow's Elk Society Ledger Book was collected by Sallie C. Maffet, Darlington Agency, the Agency of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), 1882; in the collection of the Maffet family by descent; sold at Sotheby's, New York, 1997; sold to Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; [pages removed from the book, Summer 1999]; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico; given to present collection, 2009.

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