Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Description
Wearing his painted and beaded war shirt, a man counts coup on a fallen enemy with his quirt. The Crow adversary carries a knife and shield decorated with red cloth and eagle feathers and wears beaded wool leggings and a wool breechcloth. The horse is decorated for battle with a bandana and eagle feather tied at his chin and his tail tied in red wool and eagle feathers. 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
- Crow (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
- bandannas -- bandanna -- bandanas -- bandana
- beaded leggings
- beading (process) -- beaded -- beadworking
- beads (pierced objects) -- bead
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- cloth -- cloths -- fabric (textile material)
- cloth shirts
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- dots -- dot
- eagle feather
- enemies -- enemy
- falling -- fell
- feathers -- feather
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- knives -- knife
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- leggings -- legging
- long hair
- men -- man
- numbers -- number
- painting (image-making) -- painted
- quirts -- quirt
- red (color)
- shields -- shield
- shirts -- shirt
- sitting -- seated
- spots
- squares -- square
- triangles (polygons)
- war paint
- war shirts
- warriors -- warrior
- wars -- war
- wool (textile)
- wool leggings
- zigzags -- zigzag pattern
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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