Group of three: Manuelito, his wife Juanita, and son ?
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.55769
label: Local Note
content: Blackmore Museum copy (A17/1482) is painted version of this photo. It is listed as Manuelita, wife and son. This illustration is on an Alexander Gardner mount.-12/30/77 pjr
label: Local Note
content: Source print Navaho 4689 (negative 2442) is on an N. Brown & Sons 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 #: A17/1482
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
label: Creator
content: Nicholas Brown & Son
topic: label: Topic
content: Navaho
creator: label: Creator
content: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
label: Creator
content: Nicholas Brown & Son
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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date not recorded; ca. 1860's ?; carte de visite style photo possibly 1866-72 ?

Letter of September 24, 1975 (letter 76-636) from J. Lee Correll (Supervisor, Research Section, Museum and Research Department, The Navaho Tribe , Window Rock, Arizona 86515.) states that this is definitely a portrait of Manuelito and his wife. The third person is as yet unidentified. (PJR 12/75)

The wife is the same woman as City Art Museum Number 5427:49 (Negative Number 55770), evidently made at same time and captioned, "Mica se qui, Daughter in law to Chief Barboncito." However, the seated man does not resemble Negative 55766 of Barboncito. He does seem to resemble Manuelito (BAE Negatives 2390, 2410-c; note particularly the mouth) and the woman bears a striking resemblance to Manuelito's wife, Juanita (BAE Negatives 2391, 2410-c). The standing figure looks too old to be their son Manuelito Segundo, who was a young boy in 1874. (BAE Negatives 2392; 41106 D).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1866-1872 ?
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: City Art Museum Number 5426:50. Original is carte de visite photograph. The subject is written in red ink on the reverse as follows: 1. Chief Barboncito 2. Chief Son 3. Chief wife. In another hand in pencil is written, "Taken by Wimar," but this seems improbable.