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Title Your hidden skeleton

Publisher Philadelphia : John C. Winston

Date 1910?

Subjects Signatures (Writing)

Description Kiowa Indian ledger drawings, probably created during the early reservation period between 1880 and 1890, containing drawings by warrior artists of battle scenes, breaking wild horses, hunting, and courting. Ledger drawings form part of the long tradition of the Plains Indians of chronicling their lives pictorially, first on buffalo hides, and later, between 1865 and 1935, on the blank pages of ledger books obtained from U.S. soldiers, traders, missionaries, and reservation employees. These drawings, on leaves removed from an ordinary blue-ruled writing tablet, depict Kiowa Indians hunting deer with rifles, and buffalo with bow and arrow. A pencilled caption above the deer-hunting scene has been erased. Three leaves contain scenes of warfare, with braves on horseback and on foot, some wearing long trail war bonnets, and carrying shields, feathered lances, rifles, knives, and bows and arrows. Several warriors on leaf 4 appear to be members of the Kaitsenko Society (the Kiowa version of the Dog Soldier Society, widespread among the cultures of the Plains), identified by the broad red sash which only the ten bravest fighters were selected to wear. In the drawing on leaf 3, a triumphant Indian stands over a fallen U.S. Army soldier with two arrows in his side, a brigade of infantrymen in gray and blue army uniforms in the background. Another drawing depicts fighting among Indian tribes; and on verso of leaf 2, a Kiowa warrior is shown returning from a war expedition with an enemy scalp on a pole. The last two leaves contain scenes of courtship or family life, with a man and a woman, both wearing colorful striped blankets, standing by a tipi, by the edge of a river or at the foot of the mountains. The lightly-pencilled caption "Dress" appears below the final drawing.

Extent [51] leaves : ill. ; 17 cm.

Format Autographs

Call Number Wing ZP 983 .J515

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2457px × 4116px 28.97 MB

File Created 03/22/2014

Filename 993960808805867_wing_zp983_j515_008.tif

Unique Identifier NL11OHAV

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