MS 7499 Drawings by Antelope
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7499

NAA INV 11018201 - NAA INV 11018216
name: label: Artist
content: Antelope (Blackfoot)
place: label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Tipis
label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Artist
content: Antelope (Blackfoot)
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Drawings (visual works) (graphite and colored pencil, 6 x 5.25 inches; 7 x 6.25 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 7499
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The provenance is uncertain. The donor relates that a relative once spent time in Wyoming and Montana. Candace Greene postulated a Blackfoot origin of the basis of the dress of the figures and the drawing of a moose included among the animals. John C. Ewers examined the drawings and agrees that they are probably by a Blackfoot.

The drawings were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Leavenworth Holden of Easton, Maryland in March 1991. They were brought to the museum by Dr. Thomas Kavanagh, a friend of Mr. Holden and an employee of the Handbook of American Indians. Kavangh delivered them to Candace Greene together with a number of other objects. Only the drawings were retained. Greene's correspondence with Holden is filed in the Collection Management files of the Department of Anthropology.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7499
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: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Ledger drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Ledger drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of sixteen (16) drawings, including a view of tipis, a war dance, and scenes of warriors and various animals.  The collection contains a bound book of 14 drawings on 7 leaves as well as one loose leaf with 2 drawings.  The drawings have been attributed to an individual named Antelope.   

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