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Ledger Narratives - The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College (Paperback, First Tion)
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Ledger Narratives - The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College (Paperback, First Tion)
Series: New Directions in Native American Studies Series
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The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one
individual is Mark Lansburgh's diverse assemblage of more than 140
drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
and catalogued in this important book. The Cheyennes, Crows,
Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains peoples created the genre known
as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century. Before that time,
these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements of their
warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers. As
they came into increasing contact with American traders, the
artists recorded their experiences in pencil and crayon drawings on
paper bound in ledger or account books. The drawings became known
as ledger art.
This volume presents in full color the Lansburgh collection in its
entirety. The drawings are narratives depicting Plains lifeways
through Plains eyes. They include landscapes and scenes of battle,
hunting, courting, ceremony, incarceration, and travel by foot,
horse, train, and boat. Ledger art also served to prompt memories
of horse raids and heroic exploits in battle.
In addition to showcasing the Lansburgh collection, "Ledger
Narratives" augments the growing literature on this art form by
providing seven new essays that suggest some of the many stories
the drawings contain and that look at them from innovative
perspectives. The authors--scholars of art history, anthropology,
history, and Native American studies--touch on such themes as
gender, social status, sovereignty, tribal and intertribal
politics, economic exchange, and confinement and space in a
changing world.
The Lansburgh collection includes some of the most arresting
examples of Plains Indian art, and the essays in this volume help
us see and hear the multiple narratives these drawings
relate.
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