American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

4 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount (toning, few spots of damage/discoloration, some surface soiling, and wear to mount edges and corners). Numbered and captioned in the negative, "50e / Mangas, Warm Sprng Apcha Chief." Pencil inscriptions on verso identify Ben Wittick as the photographer and reference Bush & Mitchell's The Photograph and the American Indian. Image catalogued in Patricia Janis Broder's Shadows on Glass: The Indian World of Ben Wittick (Plate 4, p. 19) with variant negative caption.

Chief Mangas, son and namesake of the greatly respected Chiricahua Chief Mangas Coloradas, vowed to avenge his father when he was murdered at a United States camp in 1865. Mangas became a devoted leader of Apache resistance to the United States military, and went to Mexico with Geronimo in May of 1885. When Geronimo surrendered in September of 1886, Mangas and his followers hid in the mountains for weeks until their eventual capture and relocation.