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.
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