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Ledger Book Drawing

Culture: Possibly Cheyenne, Native American
Medium: Ink, crayon, woven paper
Possible Place Collected: Darlington, Missouri, USA
Dates: ca. 1890
Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 1992.27.1
Credit Line: Gift of The Roebling Society
Image: Overall, 1992.27.1_transp3554.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: The ledger drawing scene shows a Native man on a charging horse, clubbing a soldier with a tomahawk weapon. The Native (possibly Cheyenne) has on decorated leggings; his hair wrapped with an elaborate headpiece with a whole bird on top of his head and a flowing trailer alongside of it . The soldier, caught between the legs of the horse, wears a blue army uniform and brandishes a pistol.There is the outline of a wagon in the lower left.

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megdir (3)
- western expansion
- covered wagon
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- poss cheyenne
- Native American
- ledger book drawing
- ca. 1890
- ink
- crayon
- woven paper
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- drawing
- Native American Art
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- fight
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