Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
A Cheyenne, wearing an eagle feather bonnet with a long trailer, cuts the head of his Shoshone opponent. The horse, decorated for battle, has been trained to stand by. Both men's rifles lie on the ground. In this drawing, possibly drawn by Red Eagle, the pursuit of the Shoshone who is on foot is shown by the hoof prints and dashes leading to him. 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
- Shoshone (culture or style) -- Shoshoni -- Snake
- blood (animal material)
- bonnets (hats) -- bonnet
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- dots -- dot
- eagle feather
- enemies -- enemy
- feathers -- feather
- firearms -- firearm
- footprints (foot impressions) -- footprint
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- kneeling
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- long hair
- numbers -- number
- rifles (long guns) -- rifle
- spots
- standing
- violence
- war bonnets -- war bonnet
- warriors -- warrior
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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