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ANIMALS, ELK; WAR, WARRIOR on Black-and-white Pinto with Lance

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52 Female and a partially drawn calf fill the page from left to right. The adult is outlined and fully colored, with detailing of ears, split hooves, dew claws, and tail. The eye is an unpigmented circle that contrasts with the hide. The front legs are down, indicating motion. The head and neck extend and lift upward. Between her legs is an unfinished, outlined drawing of a calf's head and neck. Perhaps this is an abbreviated elk. This drawing is almost identical to the sequence of other female elk with calves in this ledger: plates 25-31. Minor variations do occur. For further discussion of elk, see plate 19 notes. 53 A man on a black-and-white paint (or pinto) horse rides from right to left across the page. He wears a single-trail immature golden eagle feather headdress trimmed with red cloth. He wears a dark shirt (lead-pencil fill) shirt, with a blue blanket wrapped around his torso. German silver arm bands accent each upper arm. He wears blue leggings with a white stripe running lengthwise on each (see plate 9). He holds a lance in his right hand, which has two eagle feathers and a red trade cloth strip attached together on the shaft, along with a clipped feather circular ornament. This particular warrior is repeated in this ledger, wearing the same distinctive war bonnet. The warrior is mounted on a pinto stallion. It wears a German silver headstall with reins visible. Its tail is clubbed and wrapped in red trade cloth. See Plate 9 for further discussion of related plates with a similar figure.


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Drawn in 1879 by one or more Northern Cheyenne prisoners in the Dodge City jail held for trial after breaking ...

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Plate No: 28
Page No: 52-53
Media: Lead pencil outline, detail, and fill; yellow crayon; Lead pencil outlines, details, and fill; blue crayon; red watercolor
Dimensions: 3.25 x 5 in (8.5 x 12.75 cm)
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