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
- Couples
- Drawings
- Evans Ledger Book
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- Horseback
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native Americans
- Squares
- War Paint
- animated
- apron
- arm band
- beaded
- belt
- black
- blue
- blue horse
- boots
- breastplates (body armor)
- bridle
- broadcloth
- cases (containers)
- checkered
- circles (plane figures)
- cloth
- cloth shirts
- clothes
- clothing
- color variation
- courtship
- dots
- drawing
- dress
- dresses
- eagle feather
- eagle feather fans
- earring
- elk tooth
- elk tooth dresses
- facepaint
- fans
- feather
- feathers
- geometric patterns
- giving
- green
- grey
- hair adornment
- hairstyles
- hide
- hide leggings
- horseback riding
- horseman
- horses
- ledger art
- ledger drawing
- ledger drawings
- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books)
- leggings
- line
- loincloth
- long hair
- meeting
- men
- mobile
- neon yellow
- numbers
- offering
- painted
- painted leggings
- person
- pipe bag
- pointed
- quivers
- receiving
- red
- saddle blanket
- saddlebags
- saddles
- sage green
- shirts
- sitting
- sketch
- smooth
- spots
- standing
- stripes
- teeth
- tooth
- triangles (polygons)
- uneven color
- women
- wool
- yellow
- yellow horse
- zigzag horse mane
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
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