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Circa 1915-1950 Northern Sioux Ledger Drawing

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Circa 1915-1950 Northern Sioux Ledger Drawing
This is an original ledger drawing from the Northern Sioux dating to circa 1915-1940’s from the Robert Dickens Little Blue Hand collection. These ledger drawings are from the same ledger book collection offered and sold from our company back in 2013. The original ledger book would have been traded to the Northern Sioux and was said to be handed down from their ancestors at the Sioux Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and later traded to the collector many years ago back in the 1970-1980’s. The set ranging in age from circa 1890 on and is mostly believed to be drawn in circa 1920-1930’s. The piece shows an original circa late 19th Century Ledger book page marked in feather ink pen “1915 Andersch Bros.” with the accounting ledger information below, atop is the colored pencil and graphite pencil ledger drawing of two a warrior on yellow painted horse with red and blue horse or buffalo / bison track geometric painting. The warrior is in full war regalia holding a firing musket rifle in one hand and coup staff in the other. There are musket rifle barrels lining the left side of the page with squiggle line flying bullets coming his direction. Original condition well preserved and displays beautifully. The ledger page itself measures about 15.75” by 10.5” in a frame that is 18.25” by 12.25”.