Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1879
Description
Two men on horseback greet two other men wrapped in red and blue blankets, one with a beaded blanket strip, and wearing similar red quillwork hair ornaments. Ledger drawings usually show horses in profile, but in this case a horse – with split ears indicating his value in hunting buffalo and warfare – is facing forward. Umbrellas, such as the two carried by the men, are commonly featured in Southern Plains reservation-era ledger drawings. 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
- 1879
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 3/8 (L) × 7 9/16 in. (W) (31.4 × 19.2 cm)
- Browse: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings, 1879 and 1887
- Cheyenne
- Creel Ledger Book
- Drawings
- Equus caballus (species) -- horses -- horse
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- backs (object portions) -- back
- beading (process) -- beaded -- beadworking
- beads (pierced objects) -- bead
- blankets (coverings) -- blanket
- blue (color)
- blue blankets
- bundles -- bundle
- circles (plane figures) -- circle
- clothing -- clothes -- garments -- apparel
- dots -- dot
- ears -- ear
- geometric patterns -- geometric designs
- hair ornaments -- hair ornament
- hairstyles -- hairstyle -- hair styles -- hair-dos
- horseback riding -- horse riding
- ledger drawings -- ledger drawing -- ledger art -- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books) -- ledger
- long hair
- men -- man
- moccasins -- moccasin -- mocassins
- numbers -- number
- profiles (figures) -- profile
- quills -- quill
- quillwork -- quillworks
- quillworking
- red (color)
- red blanket
- shoes -- shoe
- sitting -- seated
- spots
- standing
- stripes -- stripe -- striped pattern
- strips -- strip
- triangles (polygons)
- umbrellas -- umbrella
- wrappers -- wrapper -- wrapped garments
- wrapping -- wrapped
- zigzags -- zigzag pattern
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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