Sioux Indian Drawing, 'Paul'

This sketch, attributed to Gertrude Kasebier, documents a young Sioux subject identified as Paul. The drawing combines observational portraiture with cultural notation, rendered in pen and colored pencil. The figure wears traditional dress detailed with geometric patterning and ornamental elements. Additional sketches on the page—a flowering plant study and a conical structure—suggest the artist's documentary approach. Kasebier, a pioneering photographer and illustrator of the period, recorded Native American subjects during an era when such visual documentation served ethnographic and artistic purposes. The informal, exploratory quality of the line work reflects late nineteenth-century practices in figure study and cultural representation.