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Mounted Warrior, ca. 1920-30
Richard Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo (born 1904)
watercolor and pencil on paper
38.8 x 3.5 cm. (11 3/8 x 13 3/16 in.)
Corbin-Henderson Collection, gift of Alice H. Rossin
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian

Recommended books on Native Americans and their horses:

Clark, La Verne Harrell, They Sang for Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo & Apache Folklore, 1966, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. Adult.

Ewers, John Canfield, The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes, 1980, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. Adult. 

Holder, Preston, The Hoe & the Horse on the Plains, 1970, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Adult.

Pony Boy, Gawani, Horse, Follow Closely: Native American Horsemanship.  Photographs by Gabrielle Baisell, 1998, Irvine, CA: Bow Tie Press.

Roe, Frank Gilbert, The Indian & the Horse, 1955, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. Adult.

Viola, Herman J., After Columbus: The Horse's Return to America, 1992, Trudy Management Corp., Soundprints division, Norwalk, Connecticut. Ages 6 - 12.

Prepared by the Resource Center,
National Museum of the American Indian,
in cooperation with the Public Inquiry
Mail Service, Smithsonian Institution

9/96

Rev 02/04

 

 
 


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