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inan>- of tluir own i('lit;ious ('(Tcinonics. In the first ui)rif!;lit\*a.se the 

 woven costuincs of Acoma arc shown and pottery from that pueblo. 

 In ihc last cases on this side of lh<' hall are cxaniph-s of Zuhi pottery, 

 l)oth ancient and modern 



The Pima, next in ordei- in the hall. i)iactice(l irri«iation. raising- by 

 p. its aid tlie coi-n and beans on which they relied hjr food and 



the cotton whicli they used for their scanty p;arments. 

 The Papa^o, with whom they are closely associated, occui)ied the more 

 arid poiMions of southern Arizona and northern Sonera, securing their 

 living from such desert })ro(lucts as the <;iant cactus, the century plant, 

 the yucca and the mesquite and small <2;ame. Examples of tlieir food, 

 baskets, pots, and ceremonial articles are shown. 



The Western Apache live in thatched houses, an example of which 

 A ache stands at the further end of the hall. They occupy the 



ui)per portion of the (lila and Salt rivers where they 

 practice agriculture, gather thc^ wild products and hunt. These were 

 the people who, under Geronimo, raided the settlements of southern 

 Arizona and Northern Mexico and evaded our troops for years. A 

 portion of them in recent years have developed a new religion the chief 

 symbols of which are the cross, standing for the hoped for world, and a 

 crescent, representing the moon about which the cult centers. These 

 symbols occur on very many of the objects here exhibited. 



The Eastern Apache lived in buffalo skin tipis. They w^ent far out 

 on the plains in search of the buffalo herds, avoiding, if possible, the 

 plains tribes, but fighting them with vigor when necessary. In dress and 

 outward life they resemble th(^ plains Indians, but in their myths and 

 ceremonies they are like their southwestern relatives and neighbors. 

 The baskets of both divisions of the Apache are shown in the large end 

 case which is in contrast with the corresponding case on the other side 

 of the hall. Not the environment but social habits caused one people 

 to develop pottery and the other to make the easily transported and not 

 easily breakable baskets. 



The Navajo, a large and widely scattered tribe, inhabit nuich of the 

 „ country drained by the San Juan and Little Colorado rivers. 



During the winter they occupy houses like the one stand- 

 ing in the large annex; but in milder weather, camp with the slight shel- 

 ter of a cliff or a wind break and shade made of brush. They live by raising 

 corn in the moist valley and on the flesh of their numerous flocks of sheep. 



They are the present-day blanket makers of North America. They 

 make use of the wool of the sheep they raise, carding, spinning, and weav- 

 ing it b}' means of the simplest implements and looms. This art is 

 believed to have arisen since the coming of the Spanish and it is know^n 

 to have passed through several stages in the last sixty years. The 



