Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Quote by Lame Deer from Lame Deer, seeker of visions : calligraphic manuscript : Maine, 1987.

Accession number
PML 250777
Creator
Yarborough, Nancy Leavitt.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"Quote by Lame Deer from Lame Deer seeker of visions, Amora paper, gouache, 1987, Nancy Leavitt Yarborough"--in pencil on last page of accordion fold.
Text laid out in five lines over eight pages of accordion fold: "We had no word for the strange animal / we got from the white man - the horse / so we called it šunka wakan holy dog / for bringing us the horse we could almost forgive you for bringing us whiskey / horses make a landscape look more beautiful."
Text in reds, oranges and whites.
Description
1 v. (unpaged, accordion fold) ; 61 x 45 mm (unfolds to 35.5 cm)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Tipped into marble wrappers over boards; wrapper over spine has Yarborough's calligraphy.
Classification
Department