The reservation era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Native American tribes had ceded their land to the federal government and were confined to set aside tracts of land, created profound cultural changes for the Plains peoples. The masculine artistic tradition of painting warrior's exploits on hide shirts and robes declined but men continued to record their deeds and their changing way of life in paintings and drawings on canvas, muslin, and small notebooks, or ledger books. Many of these works memorialize individual achievements in hunting and warfare. Some ledger books were carried into battle and "captured" on the battlefield. U.S. Army men who had amicable relations with Indian scouts or were guards of Native American prisoners commissioned others. This drawing depicts one warrior scalping another fallen warrior who is dropping his bow and arrows.

The scene depicted shows the fight between a Native warrior (possibly Cheyenne) and a non-native person. The warrior is wearing long leggings with a stripe and a blue shirt. Two feathers are on his head. He is carrying a shield with a circular design decorated with feathers and using a long decorated spear. His horse, that he is riding barebacked, has his tail bobbed, dyed and possibly wrapped for battle. The non-native person has been unseated and is falling off his saddled horse. He wears a black coat over checkered pants. His derby style hat has fallen off his head. These drawings are done by tearing out paper from ledger books that were used by army and reservation post managers as a substitute for using hides- the traditional medium fro such drawingsfor offical art papers.

The reservation era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Native American tribes had ceded their land to the federal government and were confined to set aside tracts of land, created profound cultural changes for the Plains peoples. The masculine artistic tradition of painting warrior's exploits on hide shirts and robes declined but men continued to record their deeds and their changing way of life in paintings and drawings on canvas, muslin, and small notebooks, or ledger books. Many of these works memorialize individual achievements in hunting and warfare. Some ledger books were carried into battle and "captured" on the battlefield. U.S. Army men who had amicable relations with Indian scouts or were guards of Native American prisoners commissioned others. This drawing depicts one warrior on horseback with a rifle confront another warrior on foot about to release his arrow from the bow. Still another warrior behind the horse brandishes his rifle. A sword is suspended in mid-air behind his head.

The ledger drawing scene shows a Native man on a charging horse, clubbing a soldier with a tomahawk weapon. The Native (possibly Cheyenne) has on decorated leggings; his hair wrapped with an elaborate headpiece with a whole bird on top of his head and a flowing trailer alongside of it . The soldier, caught between the legs of the horse, wears a blue army uniform and brandishes a pistol.There is the outline of a wagon in the lower left. These drawings are done by tearing out paper from ledger books that were used by army and reservation post managers as a substitute for using hides- the traditional medium fro such drawingsfor offical art papers.

Light-brown, rectangular-shaped book in two pieces (parts c” is the book; part “d” is the detached front cover). Cover is bound in cardboard and covered with cloth. Each page has a woodblock print on one side. A strip of dark orange paper is pasted onto the cover with calligraphy written vertically. Part of a set, with 1434/5 a-b.

Light-brown, rectangular-shaped book in two pieces (part “a” is the book; part “b” is the detached back cover). Cover is bound in cardboard and covered with cloth. Each page has a woodblock print on one side. A strip of dark orange paper is pasted onto the cover with calligraphy written vertically. Part of a set, with 1434/5 c-d.

Book with female puppet in patterned white and red kimono and black patterned obi, on front. Book is titled: "The Short Stories of Bunraku Ningyo Joruri / Bunraku-Za Puppet Theatre Osaka Japan 1930" Purple ribbon through center fold.

One of two books of a treatise on calligraphy, from ancient pictographs to the contemporary styles used today. It has one section of calligraphy on the front which is black.

Book of poems by various authors entitled "Sword & Blossom Poems Volume II". "Done into English Verse/by/Shotaro Kimura/&/Charlotte M. A. Peake./Illustrated by Japanese Artists./Published by T. Hasegawa/TOKYO/38 Yotsuya Hommura.". Contents include the following: Blossom Songs - Sorrow, Messengers, From the Distance, Alas, Flowerless Fields, Reminiscence, Midsummer Morning, By the Roadside, Autumn Magic, Reflection. Sword Songs - A Patriot, The Glory of This World, War, Student's Song, Sword Dance of Satsuma Clan. Poems are accompanied by polychromatic illustrations.