Warriors in Bear Costume, Graphite and Crayon Drawing on 1875 Ledger Paper shooting gallery terget shafts of wheat against a

shafts of wheat against a light blue ground

Pieces measure about 3 1/6" long

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

Clearly it is the most tender

Late 19th century I'd guess

Warriors in Bear Costume, Graphite and Crayon Drawing on 1875 Ledger Paper shooting gallery terget shafts of wheat against aWhile 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