M0000143: Native American man attending a sick child

Previous title, replaced May 2020: An American Indian medicine man attending a sick child

Painting by Valentine Walter Bromley depicting a Native American man attending a sick child, created in 1876. The original painting is held by the British Museum (museum number: Am2006,Ptg.3)

19 July 1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a photograph of the painting depicted: 580832i

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.