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Collection D 002.07:

Werito family Eastern Navajo photographs

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Title:

Ignacio Indian Boarding School students and Jane Werito
Date:  circa 1937/1938
Photoprint #: D00207002
Subjects: Werito, Jane; ; ; Navajo women--Colorado--Ignacio--Pictorial works; Ignacio (Colo.)
Notes: This photo was taken in 1937-1938 and shows a group of Navajo Indian and Ute Indian students at the Ignacio Indian Boarding School. Jane Werito (front row, second from the left) wearing a dress is kneeling. She is also wearing two silver bracelets, two silver/turquoise rings and barrettes in her hair.

This photo was loaned to the Center by Venaya J. Yazzie and her grandmother Jane Werito Yazzie for digitization in February, 2007.

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