Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
Three identically dressed women in print dresses and red blankets sit with Howling Water as one of the women takes off his bandolier. His hat, quirt, belt, and knife sheath are on the ground. His beautiful spotted horse is tied to a tree in the background. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort Reno, Plains Indian Art, Created in Community. Emma I. Hansen, Curator Emerita and Senior Scholar for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2016.
Dates
- 1887
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
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Extent
From the Collection: 1 extent_missing
Dimensions
Overall: 12 1/2 (L) × 7 1/2 in. (W) (31.8 × 19.1 cm)
- Arapaho
- Belts
- Browse: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings, 1879 and 1887
- Cheyenne
- Drawings
- Evans Ledger Book
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- Howling Water
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native Americans
- bandoliers
- blankets
- clothes
- clothing
- dots
- dress
- dresses
- friends
- hairstyles
- hats
- horses
- kneeling
- knife sheaths
- ledger art
- ledger drawing
- ledger drawings
- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books)
- long hair
- men
- numbers
- printed
- profiles (figures)
- quirts
- red
- red blankets
- sheaths
- sitting
- spotted
- standing
- trees
- women
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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