Untitled ("School taught by ladies from the hotels who volunteered to help Capt. P."), page number 11; Untitled ("Sioux Lodge"), page number 12, from a Chief Killer sketchbook

Chief Killer (Noh-hu-nah-wih), Southern Tsistsistas, 1849 - 1922
Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains

Share

about mid-1875-mid-1878

Pen, ink, colored crayon, and graphite on wove sketchbook paper

Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (21.9 × 28.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund

D.2003.18.1ab

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

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 12; inscribed, in ink, bottom center: Sioux Lodge; reverse: [drawing D.2003.18.1]

Course History

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

Art History 40.01, American Art And Identity, Mary Coffey, Fall 2023

Publication History

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. 41, ill. p. 230..

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. 102, plate 58; p. 208, figure 5.9.

Provenance

Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990; sold to present collection, 2003.

This record is part of an active database that includes information from historic documentation that may not have been recently reviewed. Information may be inaccurate or incomplete. We also acknowledge some language and imagery may be offensive, violent, or discriminatory. These records reflect the institution’s history or the views of artists or scholars, past and present. Our collections research is ongoing.

We welcome questions, feedback, and suggestions for improvement. Please contact us at: Hood.Collections@dartmouth.edu