Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
Bird Chief on horseback and carrying a feather fan, talks with two women. One of the women carries an axe indicating that the two have been out collecting firewood. She wears a cloth dress with a shawl around her waist and a concho belt. The other woman has a plaid shawl wrapped around her waist. In courtship, men often tried to meet women who were away from the camp doing chores such as getting water or collecting firewood for moments of privacy. 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
- Bird Chief
- Browse: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings, 1879 and 1887
- Cheyenne
- Drawings
- Equus caballus (species) -- horses -- horse
- Evans Ledger Book
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- aprons (protective wear) -- apron
- axes (tools) -- ax (tool) -- axe
- belts (costume accessories) -- belt
- blankets (coverings) -- blanket
- bridles (animal work equiment) -- bridle
- checker pattern -- checkered -- checked
- checkered apron
- chokers (necklaces) -- choker
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- cloth -- cloths -- fabric (textile material)
- cloth dresses
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- color variation
- concho belts -- concho belt
- conchos -- concho (costume accessory)
- couples -- couple
- courtships -- courtship -- courting
- dresses (garments) -- dress
- equestrians -- equestrian -- horseback riders
- facepaint -- face paint
- fans (costume accessories) -- fan
- feather fan
- friends -- friend
- friendship
- fringe -- fringing
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- hands grasped
- hatchets -- hatchet
- holding
- horseback riding -- horse riding
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- lines -- line
- loincloths -- loincloth -- loin cloths -- breechcloths
- long hair
- meetings -- meeting
- men -- man
- numbers -- number
- plaid (pattern)
- plaids (garments)
- pointed
- rider
- saddle blankets -- saddle blanket
- saddles -- saddle
- shawls -- shawl
- shoes -- shoe
- sitting -- seated
- squares -- square
- standing
- stripes -- stripe -- striped pattern
- tassels -- tassel
- three people
- triangles (polygons)
- uneven color
- woman -- women
- zigzags -- zigzag pattern
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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