Sioux ledger drawings, [18--?].

Description

Title: Sioux ledger drawings, [18--?].
Creator: Sorrel Horse
Abstract: Printed ledger containing fifty-five undated drawings of individual and groups of Sioux standing and on horseback in yellow, pink, blue, brown and black crayon. The drawings are attributed to Sorrel Horse, whose name is written in pencil on the front paste-down. The words [Anfretu wanji?] are written in pencil on page 152. Pages numbered 1-26, 29-34, 65-66,77-80, and 83-84 have been removed. Notes of a former owner laid in.
Provenance: Purchased from Kenneth Nebenzahl on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1965.
Extent: 1 32 cm. v. (55 leaves of drawings on pages numbered 27-150) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA MSS S-1971
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Genre: Pictorial works
Drawings (visual works) United States
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Great Plains.
Subject (Topic): Dakota art
Dakota Indians
Indians of North America
Indian art
Subjects: Dakota art
Dakota Indians > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > Pictorial works
Indian art > Great Plains
United States

Access: Public
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Citation: Sorrel Horse, Sioux Ledger Drawings. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.