Manly Heart Woman Stealing back Horses
Linda Haukaas, Lakota / American, born 1957
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Central Plains
Plains
2003
Colored pencil, graphite, and ink on ledger book paper
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 13 3/16 in. (20.6 × 33.5 cm)
Frame: 13 11/16 × 18 11/16 in. (34.7 × 47.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
© Linda Haukaas
D.2004.30
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, upper right: Linda Haukaas . 2003; inscribed, in ink, upper left: Manly Heart Woman Stealing Back Horses; stamped, upper left edge: 253; inscribed, beneath drawing, in ink, lower left edge: Chas_ H Cutting. / 1894 / [4 columns of ledger entries which continue across bottom half of paper, beneath drawing]
Label
Linda Haukaas’s Manly Heart Woman Stealing Back Horses restores the legendary role of a woman warrior by reclaiming the stolen horses that represent her own history and authority. Horses are a metaphor for self . . . taking back self from those who have taken pieces from us. . . . Manly Heart Woman Stealing Back Horses is a metaphor for taking back what is mine; those things such as emotions, belief in self, the ability to be compassionate and more. It takes internal strength to face that enemy and steal back what is truly yours. I know this as I worked for the Air Force and went to battle with the institution. —Linda Haukaas From the 2019 exhibition Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as an Artist, guest curated by Rayna Green
Course History
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
NAS 30.19, Indigistory, Gordon Henry, Fall 2019
NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing 1, Jack Wilson, Fall 2023
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2024
Exhibition History
Contemporary Native American Ledger Art: Drawing on Tradition, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 14-December 19, 2010.
Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 11, 2004-May 15, 2005.
Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as an Artist, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-July 15, 2019.
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. 198, figure 4.8.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 50, ill. fig. 8.3.
Provenance
The artist; Price-Dewey Galleries, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to present collection, 2004.
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