Lot 368

Ca. 1890-1940 Northern Sioux Ledger Drawings (2)

Estimate: $500 - $1,000

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The lot features a double sided set of two original ledger drawings from the Northern Sioux dating to circa 1890-1940s from the Robert Dickens Little Blue Hand collection showing the Carlisle Indian School and Sioux Warrior images. These ledger drawings are from the same ledger book collection offered and sold from our company back in 2013. The original ledger book would have been traded to the Northern Sioux and was said to be handed down from their ancestor’s at the Sioux Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and later traded to the collector many years ago back in the 1970-1980s. The set ranging in age from circa 1890 on and is mostly believed to be drawn in circa 1920-1930s. The first side shows the original circa late 19th Century Ledger book page number 114 with an image of Carlisle Indian School with the white teacher standing next to a U.S. flag pointing at the names the government is forcing on these children, such as Peter / Sarah and Henry, with the Indian children sitting at their desks thinking of their ledger pictorial imagery such as the four-point morning star, buffalo, crow, crane, crescent moon and more. Many Ghost Dance Imagery. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was the main Indian boarding school in the United States founded in 1879 through 1918. The other side of the ledge page shows a Sioux Warrior or Woman at camp with their large painted tipi with coup staff tending the fire. Original condition well preserved and displays beautifully. The frame is 15” by 12.25” and the art is about 13” by 10 3/8”.

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