13-1162 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.519
Description:
Painting of "Old Solomon" medicine man. Fort Ross Indian.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Culture or time period:
Northern California tribes and Pomo
Maker or artist:
Henry Raschen
Collection date:
1897
Culture depicted:
Pomo
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paintings (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
1897
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 45.72 centimeters and width 38.1 centimeters
Title:
Old Solomon" Medicine Man (Title Subject)
Comment:
See Anthropological Records, number 24, 1965, pg 44, by Edward Gifford for account of Solomon and his practice of medicine. Fort Ross is where Henry Raschen moved to with his family from Germany in 1868.