Title |
Christmas Party-Heflin's, December 21, 1946, Navajo women in wagon |
Subject |
Indians of North America; Photographs; Clothing and dress; Transportation; Wagons; Indian women--West (U.S.)--Photographs; Navajo Indians--Material culture--Photographs; Navajo women--Photographs; Wagons--Photographs; Indigenous peoples--North America |
Spatial Coverage |
Navajo Indian Reservation; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah |
Keywords |
Wooden-wheeled wagons; Horse-pulled wagons--Photographs; Navajo-Clothing; Diné culture; Native Americans |
Tribe |
Navajo Nation |
Creator |
McGibbeny, Joseph Howard, 1891-1970 |
Description |
Color photograph of five Navajo women wrapped in colorful blankets riding in a large wagon with wooden wheels. Reuben Myer Heflin (1910-1967) was born and raised in Farmington, New Mexico. Reuben Heflin and his wife Mildred operated three trading posts, the Shonto Trading Post (Arizona), the Oljato Trading Post (Monument Valley, Utah), and the Kayenta Trading Post ( that served the Navajo during the 1930s to the 1960s. The Navajos from the area referred to Reuben as Bilagaana Tso (Fat Whiteman). The trading post in Monument Valley was sometimes referred to as Heflin's |
Publisher |
Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1946 |
Type |
Image/StillImage |
Format |
image/jpeg |
File Name |
P0092n02_15_355.tif |
Collection Name |
J. H. McGibbeny |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
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Holding Institution |
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Conversion Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, RGB, at 2000 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIF |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6rj7fmz |
Setname |
uaida_main |
ID |
387813 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rj7fmz |