Ledger Drawing
Goodwyn Ledger Book
Lakota
Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan
ca. 1880
ink, graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper
height: 3"
width: 5 ¾"
Inventory # P4394-47
Sold
acquired by FENIX, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Goodwyn Ledger Drawings were created by several Lakota and Cheyenne warrior artists in the Wood Mountain Uplands, SK in the late 1870’s. The images directly reflect a series of violent encounters with the U.S. military in Dakota Territory which had prompted a group of approximately 5,000 Native Americans to evacuate across the border to Canada guided by Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull.
PROVENANCE
W. H. Goodwyn, Saskatchewan
Dr Ferguson, Great Falls, MT, acquired from the above in 1911
by descent in the family
W. E. Channing, Santa Fe, NM, August 11, 1991, lot 393
Private Collection, Texas