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Ledger Drawing

anonymous artist
The Bowstring Warrior Society Ledger
Southern Cheyenne
Central Plains

ca. 1860

graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper

height: 3 ½"
width: 5 ½""

Inventory # P3988-11

Sold

This important ledger book is believed to be the oldest known ledger book of Plains Indian drawings

Acquired by Sarah Giberson of Denver City, Colorado, in 1864,
then by descent through the family

Sotheby’s, New York, May 22, 2013, lot 83