Untitled (Osage War Dance), page number 11, from the "Julian Scott Ledger"

Inscriptions

Preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink, upper left, sideways: 11; inscribed, in iron gall ink, center: Osage / Osage / Pawnee / Kiowa / Pawnee; bottom: A scene in a war dance, Kiowas, Pawnees, & Osages participating; reverse: preprinted ledger page number, in blue ink: 12 [no drawing]

Course History

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2013

NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014

Center for Cartoon Studies, Dan Nott, Fall 2021

NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022

Writing 2.06, The American Mosaic: Literature, Essays, and Memoirs from the Voices of the Subaltern, Doug Moody, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987.

Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2003.

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.

Perspectives: Native American Art from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, Perspective in Native Studies, NAS 8, Spring 2014, Vera Palmer, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 24-June 16, 2014.

Publication History

United States. Census Office. Report on Indian Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in the United States (Except Alaska) at the Eleveth Census: 1890 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892-1896. (image reproduced in a redrawn version)

Ronald McCoy, Kiowa Memories: Images from Indian Territory, 1880. Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1987, ill. plate 7, no page #, p. 59, plate description.

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. 25, 41, 108, 257, ill. p. 109, no. 26.

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. 35, figure 3.1; p. 146, plate 100.

Provenance

Ledger book drawn, Fort Sill, Indian Territory [Oklahoma], by 1880; collected by Julian Scott (1846-1901), about 1890; by descent in the Scott family; sold to Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986 [pages removed from book]; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986; sold to present collection, 2003.

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