Hunting Buffalo
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875-1878
name: label: original artist
content: Shave Head
notes: label: Description
content: Shave Head, or O-uk-ste-uh (Cheyenne),
label: Description
content: drawn between 1875 and 1878 at Fort Marion, Florida
label: Description
content: “Hunting Buffalo”
label: Description
content: Collected by Richard Henry Pratt about 1878
label: Description
content: Colored pencil and colored ink
label: Description
content: Shave Head uses a two-level drawing shows a buffalo hunt with four wounded animals, and a separate hunt and the wounding of an elk. The Cheyenne warriors wear full headdress and four of the five also wear their mountain lion bow and quiver, symbolically powerful pieces of hunting gear.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Florida, Anastasia Island, Fort Marion
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content: Military
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content: Ledger Drawings
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0175.57
label: accession number
content: 2008.0175
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0175.057
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Name
content: ledger drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Watercolor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.8 cm x 20.5 cm; 5 1/16 in x 8 1/16 in