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Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.11
Description
From the Item:
Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by the Indian Scouts of Fort Reno, bound in the Neal W. Evans ledger book.
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.17
Description
Three identically dressed women in print dresses and red blankets sit with Howling Water as one of the women takes off his bandolier. His hat, quirt, belt, and knife sheath are on the ground. His beautiful spotted horse is tied to a tree in the background. 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...
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.21
Description
Star (identified by the small star dawn above his head), shoots a standing bear from horseback. The danger and power of the bear are depicted through his long extended claws and strong jaws. 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
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.40
Description
Bird Chief on horseback and carrying a feather fan, talks with two women. One of the women carries an axe indicating that the two have been out collecting firewood. She wears a cloth dress with a shawl around her waist and a concho belt. The other woman has a plaid shawl wrapped around her waist. In courtship, men often tried to meet women who were away from the camp doing chores such as getting water or collecting firewood for moments of privacy. From the article: Preserving...
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.41
Description
This courtship drawing shows a meeting of a finely-dressed couple. The woman wears a blue wool elk tooth dress with a shawl wrapped around her waist, a hair pipe choker and hair ornament, a German silver concho belt with a drop, and traditional beaded moccasins with attached leggings. The man is wrapped in a blanket with a beaded strip and wears painted and fringed leggings, beaded moccasins, and a red wool breechcloth. His hair ornament consists of a roach, eagle feather, and German silver...
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.43
Description
While his horse stands by, Big Horse – wearing an otter skin turban, German silver hair plates, painted and beaded and painted hide leggings and wrapped in a red and blue blanket with a beaded or quillwork strip – courts a woman. The woman is beautifully attired in an elk tooth dress, concho belt with a drop, a printed cloth shawl, and yellow painted moccasins with attached leggings. The yellow and green pigments on the moccasins and leggings were used extensively in the Southern Plains....
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.44
Description
Stump Horn and another man meet with three women who are all dressed in reservation-era cotton dresses shawls, hair pipe chokers, and beaded moccasins and leggings. Stump Horn is riding on a paint horse and, like the other man, carries an umbrella. The horse wears a leather bridle with German silver medallions. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort Reno, Plains Indian Art, Created in Community. Emma...
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.64
Description
Red Eagle depicts a courtship scene with both parties on horseback. The woman, in an elk tooth dress, rides a horse with a high cantle saddle, beaded saddle bags, and a martingale. The man in a cloth shirt, hair pipe breastplate, and painted hide leggings rides his paint horse carrying an eagle feather fan and bow case and quiver. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort Reno, Plains Indian Art, Created...
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.92
Description
A Cheyenne man wearing a war shirt decorated in beadwork strips and eagle feathers and an eagle feather bonnet with ermine skins, counts coup on his opponent as he fires his weapon. His horse has been readied for battle with paintings on his rear, flank, and chest, a scalp and eagle feather hanging from his chin, and his tail tied with a red wool cloth strip. The horse carries a painted and feathered warrior's society sash. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...
Dates:
1887
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.100
Description
From the Item:
Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by the Indian Scouts of Fort Reno, bound in the Neal W. Evans ledger book.
Dates:
1887