Drawing made by a Comanche Indian
- Description
- Unknown artist, about 1868
- “Drawing made by a Comanche Indian”
- [Title given by collector Dr. Edward Palmer]
- Media: Colored inks on paper
- This drawing of a Comanche warrior was likely prepared and collected in 1868 at the Kiowa and Comanche Agency in present-day Oklahoma. The artist’s representation of a warrior on horseback follows a tradition of pictographic imagery which presents the subject on one plane without the illusion of depth. Here both of the warrior’s legs and leg sashes are imaged on the viewer’s side of the horse.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- drawing
- Object Type
- date made
- ca 1880
- ca 1869
- ca 1882
- original artist
- unknown
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.4 cm x 29.6 cm; 8 13/16 in x 11 5/8 in
- image: 15.3 cm x 20.5 cm; 6 in x 8 1/16 in
- Place Made
- United States
- North America
- ID Number
- 2008.0175.50
- catalog number
- 2008.0175.050
- accession number
- 2008.0175
- subject
- Communications
- Art
- Cultures & Communities
- Ledger Drawings
- Military
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Ledger Drawings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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