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Article: PLAINS INDIAN ARTISTS TELL 19TH-CENTURY STORIES THROUGH LEDGER DRAWINGS IN NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY EXHIBITION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 28, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following press release:
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History opens the new exhibition "Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings" in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery Nov. 13. The exhibition focuses on drawings developed in the late 19th century by Northern and Southern Plains Native warriors, which provide a first-person description of history as the artists lived it. The term "ledger drawings" stems from the artists' frequent use of pages from ledgers or account books.
More than 70 Northern and Southern Plains Indians from various tribes were imprisoned in St. Augustine, Fla., at Fort Marion between ...