The Medicine Man | |
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Artist | Cyrus Edwin Dallin |
Year | 1899 |
Type | Bronze |
Dimensions | 240 cm (96 in) |
Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
39°59′31.2″N 75°11′11.44″W / 39.992000°N 75.1865111°W | |
Owner | City of Philadelphia Fairmount Park Commission |
The Medicine Man is an 1899 bronze equestrian statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin located on Dauphin Street, west of 33rd Street, in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.[1] The statue portrays an indigenous American medicine man.
The Medicine Man is the second of four prominent sculptures of indigenous people on horseback known as The Epic of the Indian, which also includes A Signal of Peace (1890), Protest of the Sioux (1904), and Appeal to the Great Spirit (1908).