MS 4885 Plains Indian drawing, possibly Blackfoot
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4885
name: label: Artist
content: Unknown
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Artist
content: Unknown
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (graphite on cardboard, 15 x 10.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 4885
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The drawing was found with unlisted Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report illustrations in July 1970.  There is no information about the origin of the drawing.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4885
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: Ledger drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Ledger drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of one drawing depicting a buffalo hunt in the lower register, and a pronghorn antelope, grazing elk, and trees in the upper register. The Number 1094 is written on the back of the mount in pencil.  The drawing has been provisionally identified as Blackfoot by comparison to MS 3276a, which has a very similar figure of an elk as well as similar numbering on the back.

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