Koba-Russell Sketchbook Provenance
Book of drawings by the Kiowa artist Koba given to Miss Josephine Russell in 1876 by Captain Richard H. Pratt, Commander of Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida.
Miss Russell served as a volunteer school-mistress at Fort Marion, providing instruction for the Plains Indian warriors imprisoned there from 1875 to 1878.
J. Wesley Hegeman, Russell's nephew, sent the book of drawings to Captain Pratt while he was head of the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, PA. Pratt added the captions in pencil to the drawings and returned the sketchbook.
Until 2006, the ledger book was in the possession of descendants of Miss Russell. Purchased from a Private Collection by Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (PILA), Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego.