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Warrior artists : historic Cheyenne and Kiowa Indian ledger art / Herman J. Viola ; drawn by Making Medicine and Zotom with commentary by Joseph D. and George P. Horse Capture.

By: Viola, Herman J [author].
Contributor(s): Making Medicine | Zotum | Horse Capture, George P [writer of added commentary] | Horse Capture, Joseph D [writer of added commentary] | National Geographic Society (U.S.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 125 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 x 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0792273702 (hardback).Subject(s): Making Medicine | Zotum | Cheyenne art | Kiowa art | Red River War, 1874-1875 | Indians of North America -- Great PlainsDDC classification: 741.908997078
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General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 741.908997078 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00230296
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A collection of never-before-published, nineteenth-century art by two young Native American warriors imprisoned by the Army in 1875, along with seventy others, contains more than fifty full-color pen-and-ink drawings. 20,000 first printing.

Includes bibliographical references (page 125).

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Library Journal Review

At the tail end of Indian fighting in the West, the U.S. government sent 72 Plains Indians to be interned at Fort Marion, in St. Augustine, FL. During the three years that these prisoners were held as hostages for their tribes, their officer, Capt. Richard Pratt, thought of imaginative crafts they could sell to improve their lot. Over 20 artists created ledger books filled with drawings, one of which is reproduced here. The book is the work of two artists: Making Medicine, a Cheyenne who drew lively and expressive scenes of Plains life, and Zotom, a Kiowa, who offered detailed, three-dimensional scenes that are almost a diary of his travels. Not a facsimile reproduction, this book includes explanatory (and sometimes obvious) comment on each scene and an interesting historical preface. A frequent writer on Native American issues, Viola is curator emeritus for the Smithsonian. Fine but somewhat specialized; recommended for extensive Native American or arts and crafts collections.‘Gay Neale, Southside Virginia Community Coll. Lib., Alberta (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.