Post by grahamew on Aug 29, 2022 11:00:10 GMT -5
... which seems to have originated in Canada.
"W. H. Goodwyn, [was] a Canadian Northwest Mounted Police officer. Goodwyn said the book was found in 1878 or 1879 in the Milk River Valley near the Canadian border of what is now Montana.
"I was along the boundary line close to both parties the whole time and witnessed several skirmishes and small engagements," Goodwyn wrote to Dr. Ferguson, who was buying the ledger book. As one battle ended, Goodwyn recalls, he came across some Indians who "were killed by U.S. troops or scouts." He said he found the drawings in a ledger book in the clothing of one.
"According to Goodwyn, the Indian was identified as Assiniboine by a symbol of a turtle, which was Sitting Bull's insignia, found in the book. He was also told that Little Assiniboine, whom Sitting Bull had adopted, was an artist. Little Assiniboine, however, died with Sitting Bull in 1890."
www.nytimes.com/1991/08/02/arts/auctions.html
I have no idea what the last paragraph means...
The ledger is available for perusal here: plainsledgerart.org/plates/index/99
Written comments in the ledger itself make reference to the Métis, including Jean-Louis Légaré, here written as 'John Louis Le Garre' and Joe Lapointe. On another page, we can see the name of Sergeant Major Francis of the NWMP, who was stationed at Fort Walsh, and on another page, a list of items presumably sold to the NWMP. As the drawings were made over the comments, they were presumably made during the sojourn in Canada.
Here's a flipbook video of the drawings:
The drawings - or some of them, anyhow, are part of a new Donald Ellis Gallery exhibit at the Armory Show, Fast Ponies: Past to Present featuring ledger drawings and new work by Lakota artist Dana Claxton: www.donaldellisgallery.com/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/the-armory-show-2022-preview?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Armory%20Show%202022%20Press%20Release%20-%20Other&utm_content=Armory%20Show%202022%20Press%20Release%20-%20Other+CID_03e39107be8301aebe332e7f579bba0c&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Fast%20Ponies%20Past%20and%20Present
"W. H. Goodwyn, [was] a Canadian Northwest Mounted Police officer. Goodwyn said the book was found in 1878 or 1879 in the Milk River Valley near the Canadian border of what is now Montana.
"I was along the boundary line close to both parties the whole time and witnessed several skirmishes and small engagements," Goodwyn wrote to Dr. Ferguson, who was buying the ledger book. As one battle ended, Goodwyn recalls, he came across some Indians who "were killed by U.S. troops or scouts." He said he found the drawings in a ledger book in the clothing of one.
"According to Goodwyn, the Indian was identified as Assiniboine by a symbol of a turtle, which was Sitting Bull's insignia, found in the book. He was also told that Little Assiniboine, whom Sitting Bull had adopted, was an artist. Little Assiniboine, however, died with Sitting Bull in 1890."
www.nytimes.com/1991/08/02/arts/auctions.html
I have no idea what the last paragraph means...
The ledger is available for perusal here: plainsledgerart.org/plates/index/99
Written comments in the ledger itself make reference to the Métis, including Jean-Louis Légaré, here written as 'John Louis Le Garre' and Joe Lapointe. On another page, we can see the name of Sergeant Major Francis of the NWMP, who was stationed at Fort Walsh, and on another page, a list of items presumably sold to the NWMP. As the drawings were made over the comments, they were presumably made during the sojourn in Canada.
Here's a flipbook video of the drawings:
The drawings - or some of them, anyhow, are part of a new Donald Ellis Gallery exhibit at the Armory Show, Fast Ponies: Past to Present featuring ledger drawings and new work by Lakota artist Dana Claxton: www.donaldellisgallery.com/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/the-armory-show-2022-preview?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Armory%20Show%202022%20Press%20Release%20-%20Other&utm_content=Armory%20Show%202022%20Press%20Release%20-%20Other+CID_03e39107be8301aebe332e7f579bba0c&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Fast%20Ponies%20Past%20and%20Present