MS 4452-b Book of drawings, probably Cheyenne, primarily of individual men on horseback
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4452-b

Album MS 4452B 000
label: Conservation Note
content: This work of art was conserved with a Save America's Treasures program grant.  Many pages were loose from the binding when inventory numbers were assigned. The original order was reconstructed and the volume rebound in 2002.
place: label: Place
content: North America
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
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content: MS 4452-b Book of drawings, probably Cheyenne, primarily of individual men on horseback
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 27 Drawings (visual works) (crayon, graphite and colored pencil in leather-bound notebook, 8 x 4 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 4452-b
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: There is no record of how this book was acquired by the BAE. It was evidently once stored with MS 4452A and assumed to have come from the same source. However, correspondence relating to that acquisition does not mention it. The Cheyenne identification is consistent with the shields of the warriors and the German silver pectorals worn by several of the figures.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4452B
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Ledger drawings
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ledger drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a leatherbound pocket notebook of ruled paper, containing 27 drawings, 3 with associated horse tracks on facing page. Most of the drawings depict individual men on horseback dressed in finery, but there are also five scenes of warfare, two of courting, and one of two feathered lances. A storekeeper's account is entered on the first page. 


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