Portrait of Estzan-Nez
[Navajo Name: Asdzaa Nééz, Tall Woman]

1908
By Elbridge Ayer Burbank

Maternal Clan: Honágháahnii [One Walks Around Clan]
Paternal Clan: Tsénjíkiní [Honey Combed Rock People Clan]
Father: Probably Hashké Yil Nááyá [He Decended in Anger]
Mother: Asdzaa Alts’isi [Small Woman] or Pastrlacia Baad [see HUTR 1919]
Spouse: Unknown
Children: Béésh Bíwoíi Nééz, Asdzaa Béésh Bíwoíi [Mrs. Pete Ned], Navy James’ mother, Tsii’Ch’ilí Sání wife [ Asdzaan Tsah?], Phillip Brown, Ruth Chavez, and Mrs. John B. Johnson.
Sibling: Asdzaa Dzilghá’í [Apache Woman], Asdzaa Ntl’iz Dik’á’ni, Yoo’ Hataal’í [Bead Singer], T’iis Yázhí + 3 other siblings, 2 other siblings from Bééshligaii ‘Il’íní [Silver Maker].

Great-Maternal grandparents: Bitsiidilkhí-Smooth Hair, Asdzaa Bínáá Libáhí-Woman with Gray Eyes [Honágháahnii & Tó’áhaní]
Great-Paternal grandparents: Tótsohnii Hastiin & wife
Tall Woman was about 27 years old in this portrait. Her sisters lived at T’iis Yázhí [Little Cottonwood], west of the Ganado irrigation project. Tall Woman lived near Cornfields, AZ, along the Pueblo Colorado Wash where the Blacksheep family still live.

Conte crayon on paper. L 38.2, W 26.7 cm
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, HUTR 2045