Untitled (Joined Ledger Pages: Sun Dance Medicine Lodge / Social Dancers), from an unidentified ledger
Wooden Leg (Kum-mok-quiv-vi-ok-ta), Northern Tsistsistas / American, 1858 - 1940
Northern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Plains
about 1882
Graphite, ink and watercolor on laid ledger paper mounted on wove paper
Mount: 7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in. (19 × 26.5 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
2007.65.56
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
Publication History
Mike Cowdrey, Wooden Leg, A Warrior Who Fought Custer, manuscript, San Luis Obispo, California, 2005, Drawing #3.
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. 168, plate 122.
Provenance
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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