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Figure of an Indian in relief, wearing blue pants and wrapped in cloth; attached to a small piece of rectangular cardboard, signed "CMR 1902".

Description

Same image as TU2009.39.257.11a. Handwritten on the back, "Russell dressed like Indian" and then circled in pencil, "12".

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Inscribed in pencil, "Russell dressed like Indian" and circled in pencil, "12" on verso

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Illustrated Christmas card from C. A. Beil to Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Russell of a snowcovered ranch scene. Pen and ink filled in with watercolor.

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Illustrated Christmas card from C. A. Beil to Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Russell of a snowcovered ranch scene. Pen and ink filled in with watercolor.

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

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...

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by the Indian Scouts of Fort Reno, bound in the Neal W. Evans ledger book.

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...

Description Standing Bull depicts a couple wrapped in a blanket for courtship in the Plains tradition. The woman wears a cotton print dress and moccasins with cloth leggings, and the man is clad in a calico shirt and blue wool leggings. 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,...

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...

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....