Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
Tall Red Bird and a woman dance near a tipi decorated in beaded or quill work medallions and other decorations. The man, with his forehead painted, wears a roach with an eagle feather, cloth shirt and pants with garters, and beaded moccasins. The woman is wrapped in a striped blanket or shawl. Both wear hair pipe chokers. 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
- Couples
- Dancing
- Drawings
- Evans Ledger Book
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native Americans
- Tall Red Bird
- War Paint
- beaded
- beaded medallions
- beaded moccasins
- beads
- blankets
- buckskin
- buildings
- chokers
- circles
- cloth
- cloth shirts
- clothes
- clothing
- decorations
- eagle feather
- feathers
- fringe
- garters
- geometric patterns
- leather
- ledger art
- ledger drawing
- ledger drawings
- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books)
- line
- medallions
- men
- moccasins
- numbers
- pants
- quill
- quillwork
- roach headdress
- shawls
- shirts
- shoes
- sticks
- stripes
- tipis
- trousers
- women
- wood
- wrapped
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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