Object Details
- original artist
- Shave Head
- Description
- Shave Head, or O-uk-ste-uh (Cheyenne),
- drawn between 1875 and 1878 at Fort Marion, Florida
- “Hunting Buffalo”
- Collected by Richard Henry Pratt about 1878
- Colored pencil and colored ink
- Shave Head uses a two-level drawing shows a buffalo hunt with four wounded animals, and a separate hunt and the wounding of an elk. The Cheyenne warriors wear full headdress and four of the five also wear their mountain lion bow and quiver, symbolically powerful pieces of hunting gear.
- ca 1875-1878
- ID Number
- 2008.0175.57
- accession number
- 2008.0175
- catalog number
- 2008.0175.057
- Object Name
- drawing
- ledger drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- drawing; Watercolor
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.8 cm x 20.5 cm; 5 1/16 in x 8 1/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: Florida, Anastasia Island, Fort Marion
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Military
- Communications
- Ledger Drawings
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_795057
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-fb76-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
