“this man he go to hunt Deer/ and he find some of Deer and/ this man want shoot Deer” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“As in drawing Nº32, a Hidata hunter stalks his prey. In this case it is various species of grazing deer. Deer and elk formed an important part of the dietary supplement of the village tribes and were also a source of hides for clothing and trade. An unusual feature of this drawing is the vast, hilly landscape in which the hunt takes place. The landscape is similar to the one in the drawing of the buffalo hunt (Nº32) done by Tom Smith. Both artists were from the same reservation and, no doubt, influenced each other in many respects.” (p.23)

William S. Wierzbowski and Helen M. Mangelsdorf in Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawing from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.