"Barboncito, Chief of the Navajo Tribe in New Mexico"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.55766
label: Local Note
content: Source print Navaho 4689 (negative 2442) is on an N. Brown & Son carte. The other two photographs in that series (negatives 2413-A & -B) appear to have also been taken by Brown & Son. Comparison of props, style and general appearance suggests that negatives 55,766-55,771 were also taken by Brown. N. Brown & Son was a prominent studio opened in Santa Fe between 1866 and 1868 and last recorded in 1872.--pjf 1/78
label: Local Note
content: Blackmore collection version is retouched or painted version. Image has initials, "E.H.M." Mount has notation, "Barboncite Chief of Navajoes by Mr Shepard". Shepard could be artist or photographer. In addition, Blackmore version is on a Gardner mount. --pjf 12/77
label: Local Note
content: Blackmore Collection #: A17/1481
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Nicholas Brown & Son
label: Creator
content: Wolfenstein, V (Valentin), 1844-1909
topic: label: Topic
content: Navaho
creator: label: Creator
content: Nicholas Brown & Son
label: Creator
content: Wolfenstein, V (Valentin), 1844-1909
culture: label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Gardner, Alexander?
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Most likely taken around the time of the Navajo Treaty signing in 1868 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Cf. BAE negative 2441, "Barban Cito or Little Beard," Jackson Catalog Number 786, (possibly by Shindler 1869, but not in Shindler Catalog, published 1867). [But there are some photos later than 1869 in that Catalog-P.F.] Seems not to resemble this man--at least no mustache. Correct spelling of name is presumably from "Barboncito," from barbon, 'full-bearded man.'

"The" Barboncito died in 1870, according to J. Lee Correll (Head of Field Research, Navaho Land Claims, Window Rock, Arizona.) who visited here 6/10/66. Therefore Negative 2441 (a young man) could not possibly be he, but could be his son.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1868
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogate produced from reference copy print
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: This photograph is reproduced in The American Heritage Book of Indians, A. Josephy, ed. [New York], 1961, page 383, with caption: "Navaho Chief Barboncito was noted for his mustache and friendship to whites" and credit line: "City Art Museum, St Louis, photograph by Charles Wimar."
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Copy of an albumen print, 5 ⅛ × 3 ⅝ in. now in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum.  City Art Museum Number 5426:46.  The subject above is written in on the print red ink on the reverse.