Object number2023.24

Buffalo Hunt

Portfolio/Seriesfrom a ledger book by Bear's Heart and Ohettoint

Datec. 1876

Artist Nokkoist (Bear's Heart) (Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne), 1851 - 1882)

CultureTsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)

MediumInk, graphite and colored pencil on paper

DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (21.6 x 28.6 cm)
Framed: 16 x 18 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (40.6 x 46.4 x 3.5 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, gift of Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, by exchange

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedOn recto, likely by Richard Henry Pratt, lower center edge in pencil: Cheyennes

ProvenanceGifted by Richard Henry Pratt, commander at Fort Marion, to Bishop Henry;
Benjamin Whipple on July 31, 1876;
Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple;
Roy Henry Robinson, Chicago, acquired from the estate of the above in 1933;
by family descent;
Donald Ellis Gallery
DescriptionDepiction of three Cheyenne buffalo hunters, two with bows and arrows and one with a small gun, mounted on horses hunting seven buffalo. A buffalo in the lower right bleeds from the mouth and two arrow wounds in its back while a buffalo at center left bleeds from a gunshot wound on its back. The hunters are dressed in traditional Cheyenne clothing, jewelry, and hair adornments in colors of red, blue, green, and yellow. The work has a flat, illustrative quality, with the forms filled in with color and are rendered with thin linework.

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