“this man trying kill those deers you see they got arrows/ and bows that is all/ Leroy Shirtaschnay / Nov. 19th/1879” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“Another depiction of a hunt is shown in this drawing. Two wounded deer flee as a hunter pursues them on horseback. The same artistic convention seen in Nºs. 5, 31, and 40 —that of simultaneously seeing the gun fired and the bullets flying—is here applied to the bow and arrow. The hunter is ready to shoot another arrow while six are already in flight around the prey. Accompanying the hunter is his dog, shown on a very large scale and looking almost like a horse except for the ears and tail. Dogs served, before the advent of the horse, as the primary beasts of burden for most Plains Indian groups. This drawing is almost identical to Nº35 done by Charles Willis.” (p.42)

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.