Untitled (An Inunaina (Arapaho) Warrior), page number 158, Untitled (Sketch of a Horse), page number 157, from the "Frank Henderson Ledger"
Unknown artist ("Frank Henderson" Ledger), Southern Inunaina and/or Southern Tsistsistas / American, active late 19th century
Southern Inunaina (Arapaho) and / or Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1882
Graphite on laid ledger paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 5 5/16 × 11 13/16 in. (13.5 × 30 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, in honor of Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections, Hood Museum of Art, 2002-2008
2007.89.1ab
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
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. 163, plate 117.
Provenance
Ledger Book [named for Frank Henderson, one of the artists], Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Darlington, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), completed 1882; given [sent] to his friend Martha Ker Underwood (1823-1890), Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1882; to her grandniece, Josephine [Mrs. James B.] Underwood Ritter (1891-1985), Carlisle, Pennsylvania; purchased by Alexander Aceredo, Alexander Gallery, New York, New York, 1987; [pages removed from ledger]; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1988; given to present collection, 2007.
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