James D Keyser The Five pullulates...

James D Keyser The Five pullulates Ledger: Biographic Warrior Art of the Flathead Indians. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P 2000 128 Pp 12 color, 49 half-prints. ISBN 0-87480-659-3 $2495

Ledger art among Plains Indian tribes developed as the tribes ground themselves incarcerated on reservations from the mid-to-late 1800 Indian agents, missionaries, and others frequently provided lined ledger work paper to Indian people as a way for them to record their tillages and their personal and tribal histories. In many ways, ledger art became a substitute for the "picture writing"