Dead Union Soldiers, unrecorded Ka’igwu artist

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unrecorded Ka’igwu artist, Dead Union Soldiers
unrecorded Ka’igwu artist, Dead Union Soldiers
unrecorded Ka’igwu artist
Dead Union Soldiers
1890s–1901
Dead Union Soldiers, 1890s–1901
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: ledger drawing
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 18.1 x 29.3 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 1/8 x 11 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2013.0005
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Roots and Journeys: Encountering Global Arts and Cultures," Jun-2013, Cassandra Mesick After the 1874 Red River War, United States military troops detained more than seventy Native American leaders at Fort Marion, Florida. In an attempt to educate and Westernize their prisoners, jailors supplied them with ink, crayon, colored pencil, and paper from unused ledger books. Using these new materials, twenty-six young Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho men at Fort Marion composed narrative scenes of biographical and historical events. This new genre, called ledger art, evolved directly from an enduring tradition of pictorial hide painting. Ledger drawings eventually spread beyond the prison walls and into the artistic repertoire of Plains Indians. Created at the turn of the 20th century, these three examples illustrate the general style and content of ledger art during its period of peak development.