Warriors in Bear Costume, Graphite and Crayon Drawing on 1875 Ledger Paper shooting gallery terget with a great zig zag

with a great zig zag of white teeth and pink blush on the cheeks

Pieces measure about 3 1/6" long

with a good amount of age to him I believe

pages 122-131 (the second part of a play by Rabindranath Tagore and translated by Andre Gide titled “Amal et la letter du Roi”) and three plates accompanying the story on Chinese funeral statues

Warriors in Bear Costume, Graphite and Crayon Drawing on 1875 Ledger Paper shooting gallery terget with a great zig zagWhile this gathering of warriors dressed as bears seems as if it might have generated entirely from the imagination of the child who drew it, it is one of a handful I found together portraying various historical battles, all done on ledger pages spanning from the 1870s late 1880s ( I believe the drawings were done several decades later.) My guess is these might be Native Americans of the Northwest coast portrayed, perhaps referencing the Nootka crisis