This is an outstanding, original Yellow Hand Plains Native American Indian 1918 ledger art from the Webbster House Collection depicting Willow Creek Battle. The original Ledger painting is signed bottom right Yellow Hand and dated 1918 from the Native American Indian as well as titled Willow Creek battle and marked in the left corner W.H.C. 47, possibly the school or student number. The work depicts seven Native American Indian warriors, likely of the Plains, on horseback in yellow, purple / blue and brown / orange having a rifle, bow and arrow and lance spear in hand amongst the nine blue coat U.S. massacred soldiers, one killed horse an a dead warrior with coup staff. Provenance: From The Webbster House Collection. From the title plaque, "Kenneth Webbster was a doctor who collected Native American memorabilia from about 1930 until his death in 1967. After his death, his kids turned his home / office into a mini gallery to display his collection. It was called the Webbster House Collection. The ledgers he collected are mostly all from either the Carlisle Indian Industrial School that was in Pennsylvania or a placed called St. Mary's Indian Board School in Wisconsin. Students were not just children and the schools served as what was referred to as re-education schools for adults well. Drawings were sent to donor and supporters of the schools as gifts and were coveted by many of the recipients. This would account for why the students of these schools were encouraged to draw these pictures." Ledger art is traditionally drawings done with pen, pencil, crayon, color pencil and sometimes watercolor that the Indians obtained through trade or by taking them from soldiers bodies on the battlefield. For nearly 70 years, ledger art was a transitional medium that mirrored the changes in Plains Indian life at the time. The ledger art is in amazingly fine condition, minor tears noted to edges with some color bleed and dark paper surface. The piece has been archivally protected in an acid free plastic sleeve then framed in museum glass with a fine professional burl wood frame. The visible art area measures 14 ¾” by 6 5/8”22” by 14 1/8” by 1”.