Untitled (An Inunaina (Arapaho) Warrior's Map), page number 107 and Untitled (An Inunaina (Arapaho) Warrior Traveling), page number 108, from a unidentified ledger

Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Central Plains
Plains

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about 1882

Graphite on laid ledger paper

Sheet (Irreg.): 7 11/16 × 12 3/8 in. (19.6 × 31.4 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

2007.65.54ab

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 left: 107; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper right: 108 [drawing 2007.65.55]

Exhibition History

Possibly exhibited Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "The Lansburgh Collection," August 10-31, 2000.

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. 166, plate 120.

Provenance

A bound ledger (about 70-80 pages) was found in a storage box in the Chilocco Indian School, Oklahoma, by an unidentified man, about 1965 [taken apart and sold by this individual]; with an unknown dealer, about 1985-1986; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1988; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.

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