Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
A warrior leans to the side of his horse to strike a Pawnee with his saber. The Pawnee, identified through his distinctive hair style, wears a cotton shirt, a breech cloth, blue wool leggings, and garters. A mirror board and powder horn are tied to his belt and he carries a rifle. The Cheyenne carries a distinctive shield painted with images of the full and crescent moons and dragonflies. 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
- Pawnee (culture or style)
- attacks (armed conflicts) -- attack
- belts (costume accessories) -- belt
- blood (animal material)
- blue (color)
- blue wool
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- cotton (textile)
- cotton shirts
- crescents (motifs) -- crescent -- crescent moons
- dots -- dot
- enemies -- enemy
- firearms -- firearm
- garters -- garter
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- hairstyling -- hair styling
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- leggings -- legging
- loincloths -- loincloth -- loin cloths -- breechcloths
- men -- man
- moons -- moon
- numbers -- number
- painting (image-making) -- painted
- powder horns -- powder horn
- rifles (long guns) -- rifle
- sabers -- saber
- shields -- shield
- shirts -- shirt
- sitting -- seated
- spots
- standing
- triangles (polygons)
- violence
- warriors -- warrior
- wars -- war
- wool (textile)
- wool leggings
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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