ORIGINAL INDIAN SCHOOL LEDGER DRAWING. Simon Knife 1920.

Original Indian School Ledger Drawing. A very nice piece of Western Art. Ledger Drawing depicting an Indian chife dancing. Somon Knife 1920.
Depicted in lead and color pencil on old  ledger cover cover pages. 7 3/4″ x 11 3/4″.
From the Webbster House Collection.
About the Webbster House Pieces. Here is some history and what I know about the origins of the pieces. Kenneth Webbster was a doctor who collected these ledger pieces from about 1930 until his death in 1967. By then he had amassed a substantial collection of these as well as bead work, hunting artifacts, baskets and some head dresses and tribel clothing. After his death, his kids turned his home/office into a mini gallery to display his collection. It was called the Webbster House Collection. Once his kids got too old to keep it going, the grand kids took over and closed it down. I came across several baskets from the collection on an auction site a few years back. I bought them. With them came the contact info of the sellers. I contacted them to see about other baskets. I ended up taking a trip to Coldwater, Kansas and was introduced to the entirety of the collection. The ledgers are mostly all from either the Carlisle Indian Industrial School that was in Pennsylvania, or a place called St. Mary’s Indian Boarding School in Wisconsin. Some of the drawings have where they came from written on the front of them. Some do not. Why they were not listed on the back I do not know. In any case, these are the two main sources listed. I know that the students were not just children and the  schools served as what was referred to as re education schools for adults as well. Thus the the subject matter of some of the drawings. Also, drawings were sent to donors and supporters of the schools as gifts and were covited by many of the recipients. This would account for why thous students of these schools were encouraged to draw these pieces.
Glass frames are inexpensive at Hobby Lobby or you may want to have it professionally framed as it is a very collectible work of historical art.
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Thank you so much for looking, best, Keith