Catch Girls

This sketch depicts a children's game sequence with a tipi shelter and four figures in progressive poses suggesting movement and play. The drawing uses simple linear forms and minimal detail, capturing action through posture and composition rather than elaborate shading. The notation "5/8" appears to indicate scale or proportion. Created during a period of documented artistic exchange and ethnographic documentation, the work demonstrates how visual narratives—whether in sketches or emerging newspaper comics—conveyed sequential action and social interaction through repeated figures across a single page. Early comic strips would soon adopt similar compositional strategies: multiple frames showing character progression, simplified linework for clarity, and the arrangement of scenes to guide a viewer's eye through narrative sequence.