Miguelito

Miguelito

Photo By Carl Moon

Miguelito was a Navajo Chanter of great power.  He was born while the Navajo people were at Boaque Redondo about 1865, to the Place-Where-He-Comes-Out clan.  He came to Ganado and married Maria Antonio, who later was an artist-demonstrator for the Harvey Company in Albuquerque.  He lived south of Hubbel's Trading Post at Ganado near a geological feature called Red Point.  Later in his life, Miguelito was known as Red Point.
 Miguelito worked for the Fred Harvey Company for long periods of time.  In 1915 and 1916, he traveled to San Francisco and San Diego where he worked at Harvey Company exhibits at these two world's fairs.
 Miguelito assisted with the selection and creation of sandpainting designs that decorated the walls of El Navajo, the Harvey Company hotel in Gallup, New Mexico, and he participated in the house blessing ceremony which was part of the hotel's opening activities in 1923.  In 1924 Miguelito was in Albuquerque to work on a special commission for J. F. Huckle.  Under the direction of Herman Schweizer, Miguelito drew several sandpaintings and recounted the stories to accompany each one.