Black-and-white negative

Museum number:
15-23204
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21150023204
Alternate number:
MOAC SubObjID #1357 (moac subobjid)
Accession number:
Acc.2341
Description:
black-and-white negative: Old woman standing with kerchief on head "Two old Winut women, Ellen Silver Thorne and Martha Charles, have confidently identified this woman as Fanny Brown, a Wintu shaman with evil powers" Dubois 1935 photograph. As per C. Hart Merriam 1927 California Napa triblet, Wintun
Donor:
Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
North Central California
Culture or time period:
Patwin
Maker or artist:
Clinton Hart Merriam
Materials:
Acetate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Still and motion photography
Comment:
Two old Wintu women, Ellen Silverthorne and Martha Charles, have confidently identified this woman as Fanny Brown, a Wintu shaman with evil powers." Du Bois, 1935, Wintu Eth. Peter M. Knudtson, Ranger Naturalist, Shasta Lake Distr., Redding, Ca. 9/7/73
Loans:
S1999-2000 #15f: Preservation Department, Main Library (UC Berkeley) (March 2, 2002–May 6, 2002)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-23204, described as black-and-white negative: Old woman standing with kerchief on head "Two old Winut women, Ellen Silver Thorne and Martha Charles, have confidently identified this woman as Fanny Brown, a Wintu shaman with evil powers" Dubois 1935 photograph. As per C. Hart Merriam 1927 California Napa triblet, Wintun

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