Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico traditional kuna mola but it gives me delight

but it gives me delight

11 1/4" x 8 3/4" framed

which seems to want to hug the mother bear but can't quite reach

I know this small bowl was purchased from a large private Native American collection in northern New Mexico

Smiley went on to major in painting at Sarah Lawrence College where she received her BA in 1946

Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico traditional kuna mola but it gives me delightAnother from a series of battle scene drawings done by a kid long ago making use of the pages of a 1870s 80s ledger, each with a bit of a different sort of energy, making me think they may have been done by a couple of different boys, or one over several years. Much of what I personally love about these sorts of drawings is how vividly one feels they lived in the present in the imagination of their maker, and in this one, of Native Americans very much