Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
Stump Horn and another man meet with three women who are all dressed in reservation-era cotton dresses shawls, hair pipe chokers, and beaded moccasins and leggings. Stump Horn is riding on a paint horse and, like the other man, carries an umbrella. The horse wears a leather bridle with German silver medallions. 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
- Browse: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings, 1879 and 1887
- Cheyenne
- Drawings
- Equus caballus (species) -- horses -- horse
- Evans Ledger Book
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- German silver
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- beaded shoes -- beaded shoe -- beaded moccasins
- beading (process) -- beaded -- beadworking
- beads (pierced objects) -- bead
- braids (hairstyle) -- plaits
- bridles (animal work equiment) -- bridle
- chokers (necklaces) -- choker
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- cotton (textile)
- cotton dresses
- dresses (garments) -- dress
- eagle feather
- eagle feather fans
- fans (costume accessories) -- fan
- feathers -- feather
- friends -- friend
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- leather -- leathers
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- leggings -- legging
- lines -- line
- long hair
- medallions (ornament areas) -- medallion
- men -- man
- moccasins -- moccasin -- mocassins
- numbers -- number
- painting (image-making) -- painted
- profiles (figures) -- profile
- shawls -- shawl
- shoes -- shoe
- squares -- square
- standing
- stripes -- stripe -- striped pattern
- umbrellas -- umbrella
- vests -- vest
- woman -- women
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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