Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico keep out sign and in their original box

and in their original box

a fantastic pop of color

Both bowl and lid were hand-thrown

who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings

Address and postmarked 1908 on reverse

Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico keep out sign and in their original boxAnother 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