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
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
Art History 40.01, American Art And Identity, Mary Coffey, Fall 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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