Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1879
Description
Dressed in a soldier's uniform and wearing a hair pipe breast plate and distinctive kit fox skin that symbolizes his position, a leader of the Kit Fox warrior society, struggles for a knife in hand-to-hand combat with a Nez Perce. The Nez Perce wears a short capote and blue pants with garters. This drawing likely shows the same event illustrated by an unknown artist in the Little Wolf Band Ledger (Powell, 1975, pp. 46-47). 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
- Fort Reno Ledger Drawings
- Ledger Drawing
- Native American
- Native Americans
- Nez Percé
- Squares
- blue
- breastplates (body armor)
- capote
- clothes
- clothing
- combat
- enemies
- fighting
- foxes (animals)
- geometric patterns
- hairstyles
- hide
- knives
- ledger art
- ledger drawing
- ledger drawings
- ledger-book drawings
- ledgers (account books)
- line
- long hair
- men
- numbers
- pants
- skin
- standing
- stripes
- uniforms
- violence
- warriors
Creator
- Unidentified (Artist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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