Chief Manuelito's wife Juanita, center, in an 1874 photo wearing the biil when she was with a Navajo delegation that traveled to Washington to talk with President Ulysses Grant.
The Navajo delegation in Washington, D.C., in 1874. Juanita was the only woman to travel with the delegation, although the Indian agent had submitted the names of other Navajo leaders’ wives. In 1951, Dághá Ch'íí Bik'is identified Manuelito’s son, sitting second from the right in the front row, next to his father, as Naat'ahsilá. Manuelito and Juanita in 1881. Their Navajo names include
Hastiin Ch'il Hajin (Man from Black Weeds) and Asdzáá Tł'ógi (Lady
Weaver). After 1868 they returned to their former residence near
Standing Rock, New Mexico.
