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AI'ACIIK 



Apache 



>alt rivers, where they practice ii^;riciilture, j^ather the wild products 

 and hunt, 'rhese were the pe()i)le who, under Geroiiinio, 

 laided the settlements of southern Arizona and 

 iiortiiern Mexico and evaded our troops tor years. They live in j^ra.ss- 

 tliatched houses or in the open under the shade of flat-top])ed, open- 

 sided shelters. In an adjoining!; alcove is bein^ prepared an industrial 

 u;rou{) with i)ainted hackj^round showing the well-watered San Carlos 

 valley occui)ie(l 1)\' the Apache for many generations. 



An attractive Navajo blanket from the Museum's valuable collection. The Xavajo Indians 

 of the Southwest are a wealthy, pastoral people, and the best Indian blanket makers of North America. 



The Eastern Apache lived in buffalo-skin tipis. They went 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 the Plains Indians, but in their myths and 

 ceremonies they are like their southwestern relatives and neighbors. 

 The baskets of the Apache are shown in the large end case, which is in 

 contrast with the correspcmding case of pottery on the other side of the 

 liall. 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. |See Handbook, Indians of the Southwest.] 

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