"Alternative Accounts" Curated by UC San Diego students, Plains Indian ledger art exhibition at San Diego Museum of Art shares Native vision of American history
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
NOTES FROM ACADEME
From the issue dates January 26, 2007
Accounts of Indian Life
Plains Indian men used to wear stories on their backs. Buffalo skins painted with the wearer's exploits in battle or the brave acts of his tribesmen were used to show status and displayed on ceremonial occasions. But beginning in... MoreDownload PDF
American Indian Narratives in Picture Form
04-21-2016
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American Indian Narratives in Picture Form
By EVE M. KAHN APRIL 21, 2016
Kiowa ledger art from the 19th century at the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan. Credit Zotom, Ernest Amoroso, via National Museum of the American Indian
Tattered pages from 19th-century ledger books, which American Indians u... MoreDownload PDF
@UCSD AN ALUMNI PUBLICATION
May 2006
Volume 3, Number 2
Drawing on Tribal History
by Inga Kiderra
Ross Frank was a teenager when he first saw the 19th-century ledger drawings of Plains Indians. These were three scenes of derring-do acquired by his art-dealer father. Two were drawn by a Lakota Sioux man named Swift Dog, who had foug... MoreDownload PDF
The Fales-Freeman Brulè Ledger
During the 1860-1900 period, Plains Indians created drawings on paper, often in accountant's ledger books acquired by trade, purchase, or as spoils of combat, hence the name "ledger books". Professor Ross Frank of the Department of Ethnic Studies started the Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (pl... MoreDownload PDF
Landmark 'A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux' back in print for 50th anniversary