Untitled ("School taught by ladies from the hotels who volunteered to help Capt. P."), page number 11; Untitled ("Sioux Lodge"), page number 12, 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
Pen, ink, colored crayon, and graphite on wove sketchbook paper
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (21.9 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
D.2003.18.1ab
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, upper right: 12; inscribed, in ink, bottom center: Sioux Lodge; reverse: [drawing D.2003.18.1]
Course History
NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 41, ill. p. 230..
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. 102, plate 58; p. 208, figure 5.9.
Provenance
Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990; sold to present collection, 2003.
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