“This man shot deer/ with his dog the other/ deer shot and other/ deer try shot” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“In this hunting scene, a mounted hunter chases down two deer, one of whom is already wounded. The hunter is accompanied by his dog. The drawing by Shirtaschnay (Nº28) is nearly identical. Shirtaschnay’s, however, is set in a landscape, or at least ground is indicated. Willis’s drawing, in contrast, keeps to the traditional convention of showing no ground line or landscape elements.” (p.47)

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.