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Graphite and coloured pencil drawing of a Native American warrior with painted deer hide and a herd of horses | Donald Ellis Gallery

Ledger Drawing

anonymous artist
Goodwyn Ledger Book
Lakota
Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan

ca. 1880

ink, graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper

height: 3"
width: 5 ¾"

Inventory # P4394-31

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The Goodwyn Ledger Drawings were created by several Lakota and Cheyenne warrior artists in the Wood Mountain Uplands, SK in the late 1870’s. The images directly reflect a series of violent encounters with the U.S. military in Dakota Territory which had prompted a group of approximately 5,000 Native Americans to evacuate across the border to Canada guided by Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull.

PROVENANCE

W. H. Goodwyn, Saskatchewan
Dr Ferguson, Great Falls, MT, acquired from the above in 1911
by descent in the family
W. E. Channing, Santa Fe, NM, August 11, 1991, lot 393
Private Collection, Texas