Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
Red Eagle depicts a courtship scene with both parties on horseback. The woman, in an elk tooth dress, rides a horse with a high cantle saddle, beaded saddle bags, and a martingale. The man in a cloth shirt, hair pipe breastplate, and painted hide leggings rides his paint horse carrying an eagle feather fan and bow case and quiver. 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
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- animated
- aprons (protective wear) -- apron
- armbands -- armband -- arm-bands -- arm bands
- beading (process) -- beaded -- beadworking
- belts (costume accessories) -- belt
- black (color)
- blue (color)
- blue horse
- boots (footwear) -- boot
- breastplates (body armor) -- breastplate -- breast-plates
- bridles (animal work equiment) -- bridle
- broadcloth
- cases (containers) -- case
- checker pattern -- checkered -- checked
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- cloth -- cloths -- fabric (textile material)
- cloth shirts
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- color variation
- couples -- couple
- courtships -- courtship -- courting
- dots -- dot
- drawings (visual works) -- drawing (visual work)
- dresses (garments) -- dress
- eagle feather
- eagle feather fans
- earrings (jewelry) -- earring
- elk tooth
- elk tooth dresses -- elk tooth dress
- equestrians -- equestrian -- horseback riders
- facepaint -- face paint
- fans (costume accessories) -- fan
- feathers -- feather
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- giving
- gray (color) -- grayish -- grey
- green (color) -- greenish
- hair adornments
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- hide (collagenous material)
- hide leggings
- horseback riding -- horse riding
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- leggings -- legging
- lines -- line
- loincloths -- loincloth -- loin cloths -- breechcloths
- long hair
- meetings -- meeting
- men -- man
- mobile
- neon yellow
- numbers -- number
- offerings -- offering
- painted leggings
- painting (image-making) -- painted
- people -- person -- persons
- pipe bags -- pipe bag
- pointed
- quivers -- quiver
- receiving
- red (color)
- saddle blankets -- saddle blanket
- saddlebags -- saddlebag -- saddle bags
- saddles -- saddle
- sage green
- shirts -- shirt
- sitting -- seated
- sketches -- sketch
- smoothness -- smooth
- spots
- squares -- square
- standing
- stripes -- stripe -- striped pattern
- teeth -- tooth
- triangles (polygons)
- uneven color
- war paint
- woman -- women
- wool (textile)
- yellow (color)
- yellow horse
- zigzag horse mane
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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