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...

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by unknown artists, bound in the Herber M. Creel ledger book.

Description In this drawing from the 1879 ledger book, a Cheyenne warrior counts coup on a fallen adversary as he attempts to shoot his arrow. The artist drew the enemy with few details while his own self-portrait includes identifying features – the black shirt and hat with a silver pin, German silver pendant, bandana with a silver slide, silver arm bands and hair plates, and a shield with images of the sun and full and crescent moons. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...

Description In a running battle on horseback, a Cheyenne, wearing a vest, calico shirt, painted and beaded leggings, German silver hair plates, and a peace medal (or similar medallion), attempts to count coup on a Pawnee warrior painted entirely in blue and wearing only a breechcloth and moccasins. As he aims his bow and arrow, the Pawnee's previous four arrows have passed by the Cheyenne. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings...