“Nov. 24” 1879./ I live in this Country all/ the things grows very nice Hy. Fisherman./ Father and his Brother too/ that is all” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“This drawing shows a bird's-eye view of the Fisherman farm on Cheyenne River Agency. In Nº14 the landscape vies with the hunting scene for attention. In this drawing the landscape is the center of attention. Again Fisherman devotes himself as much to details of the landscape as he does to the meticulous depiction of wagons, plow, and cabin in the lower right corner of the drawing. No tipi is evident behind the log cabin as in the Bushotter drawings (Nº10 and Nº12). This is probably due to the fact that Charles Fisherman, Henry's father, was considered by the reservation authorities as a progressive Indian, that is, one who readily adopted the white man's culture. This background may explain the great interest that Henry Fisherman showed in landscape drawing, which had little place in traditional Plains Indian painting but was highly regarded in white culture.” (p.31)

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.