For your consideration is this Indian Boarding School Ledger Art, by Yellow Hand, 1918, Burl Frame. The original Ledger painting is signed bottom right Yellow Hand and dated 1918. Titled, "Dog Soldiers", this depicts a battlefield scene with Cheyenne Dog Soldier warriors fighting US Army soldiers. The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men are historically one of six Cheyenne military societies that evolved into a separate, militaristic band that played a dominant role in Cheyenne resistance to the westward expansion of the United States in the area of present day Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, where the Cheyenne had settled in the early nineteenth century. 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 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, matted mounted shadowbox-style. Professionally mounted, no obvious marring noted. Visible art measures 7.5"W x 9"L, frame is 15.75"W x 16.25"L x 1"D.