Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
A Cheyenne man wearing a war shirt decorated in beadwork strips and eagle feathers and an eagle feather bonnet with ermine skins, counts coup on his opponent as he fires his weapon. His horse has been readied for battle with paintings on his rear, flank, and chest, a scalp and eagle feather hanging from his chin, and his tail tied with a red wool cloth strip. The horse carries a painted and feathered warrior's society sash. 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
- Cheyenne (culture or style)
- 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
- bands (binding components) -- band
- beading (process) -- beaded -- beadworking
- beadwork (visual works) -- beadworks -- bead-work -- beading -- beadworking
- bonnets (hats) -- bonnet
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- cloth -- cloths -- fabric (textile material)
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- dots -- dot
- eagle feather fans
- enemies -- enemy
- ermine skin
- feathers -- feather
- firearms -- firearm
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- long hair
- men -- man
- numbers -- number
- painting (image-making) -- painted
- red (color)
- rifles (long guns) -- rifle
- sashes -- sash
- shirts -- shirt
- sitting -- seated
- spots
- stabbing
- standing
- striking
- strips -- strip
- triangles (polygons)
- war bonnets -- war bonnet
- warriors -- warrior
- wars -- war
- weapons -- weapon
- wool (textile)
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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