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Sketchbook ("Ledger Book") with 33 drawings
Silver Horn (Huangooah), Kiowa (American, 1860–1940)
Native American, Kiowa
1885
Object Place: Plains
Medium/Technique
Contains 33 drawings executed in graphite and colored pencils (or crayons); papers, some colored, watermarked Montgolfier a St. Marcel-Les-Annonay.
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.4 x 35.3 cm (10 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the grandchildren of Lucretia McIlvain Shoemaker and the M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession Number1994.429
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionBrown cloth sketchbook, 34 leaves with 33 pages of drawings and facing captions written in red ink. Drawn at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1885-1887. Contains historical scenes involving Kiowa and their allies and enemies.
InscriptionsInside front cover in pen and blue ink: The Property of Mrs. Lewis F. Shoemaker, Devon, PA.; three newspaper obituaries of Gen. Alfred C. Markley.
ProvenanceAlfred C. Markley (b. 1843 - d. 1926) and Rebecca Conard Markley (b. 1845 - d. 1928), Pennsylvania; to Lewis Foulke Shoemaker (b. 1867 - d. 1931) and his wife, Lucretia McIlvain Shoemaker (b. 1867 - d. 1965), Lansdowne, PA; by descent to their grandchildren, Edward, Mary Lucretia, and Anne Shoemaker; 1994, year-end gift of Edward, Mary Lucretia, and Anne Shoemaker to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 1995)