This book is the product of the exhibition "Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection," held Oct. 2-Dec. 19, Hood Museum of Art, and the 2010 Leslie Humanities Institute, "Multiple Narratives in Plains Indian Ledger Art," Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
Contents:
Battles, courting, and changing lives : the Mark Lansburgh collection / Joyce M. Szabo -- Striving for recognition : ledger drawings and the construction and maintenance of social status during the reservation period / Michael Paul Jordan -- Illustrating encounter : trade, travel, and warfare in Southern Plains ledger drawing, 1875-1880 / Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote -- Unsettling accounts : the violent economies of the ledger / Melanie Benson Taylor -- New geographies and surveying eyes : the landscapes of Noh-hu-nah-wih (Chief Killer) / Mary Peterson Zundo -- Tracing the schoolhouse/big house legacy : ledger art and prison work / Vera B. Palmer -- Reconstructing history from a fragmented past / Joyce M. Szabo -- Appendix : ledger drawings in the Mark Lansburgh collection / compiled by Deborah T. Haynes.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.