ledger drawing

English
a ledger drawing by a Kiowa artist

Etymology

From the frequent use by the artists of paper from ledger books.

Noun

ledger drawing (plural ledger drawings)

  1. Narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth, as executed by native Americans, principally of the Great Plains.
    • 2013, Richard Pearce, Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists, page xix:
      When John Ross, an anthropologist who had been working with Spokane people for thirty years, took me to the studio of George Flett, I saw my first ledger drawing.

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