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 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....

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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.