Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
While his horse stands by, Big Horse – wearing an otter skin turban, German silver hair plates, painted and beaded and painted hide leggings and wrapped in a red and blue blanket with a beaded or quillwork strip – courts a woman. The woman is beautifully attired in an elk tooth dress, concho belt with a drop, a printed cloth shawl, and yellow painted moccasins with attached leggings. The yellow and green pigments on the moccasins and leggings were used extensively in the Southern Plains. 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
- Creation: 1887
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
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Full Extent
From the Collection: 1 extent_missing
Dimensions
Overall: 12 1/2 (L) × 7 1/2 in. (W) (31.8 × 19.1 cm)
Cultural context
Genre / Form
- drawings
- Equus caballus (species) -- horses -- horse
- Evans Ledger Book
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- German silver
- German silver hair plates
- ledger drawing
- beaded leggings
- beading (process) -- beaded -- beadworking
- beads (pierced objects) -- bead
- belts (costume accessories) -- belt
- blankets (coverings) -- blanket
- blue (color)
- blue blankets
- boots (footwear) -- Boot
- braids (hairstyle) -- plaits
- bundles -- bundle
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- cloth -- cloths -- fabric (textile material)
- cloth shawls
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- concho belts -- concho belt
- conchos -- concho (costume accessory)
- dresses (garments) -- dress
- elk tooth
- elk tooth dresses -- elk tooth dress
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- hide (collagenous material)
- hide leggings
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- Ledger
- leggings -- legging
- lines -- line
- men -- man
- moccasins -- moccasin -- mocassins
- painted leggings
- plates -- plate
- profiles (figures) -- profile
- quills -- quill
- quillwork -- quillworks
- red (color)
- shawls -- shawl
- shoes -- shoe
- skin -- skins
- strips -- strip
- teeth -- tooth
- turbans -- turban
- woman -- women
Style / Period
Topical
- Big Horse
- courtships -- courtship -- courting
- long hair
- numbers -- number
- painting (image-making) -- painted
- printing -- printed
- red blanket
- standing
- wrapping -- wrapped
Uniform Title
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository