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Apache 



The Western Apache live along the upper portion of the Gila and 

 Salt rivers, where they practise agriculture, gather the wild products 

 and hunt. People, related to these, under Geronimo, 

 raided the settlements of southern Arizona and northern 

 Mexico and evaded our troops for years. They live in grass-thatched 

 houses or in the open under the shade of flat-topped, opensided shelters. 

 In an adjoining alcove is an industrial group with painted background 

 showing the well-watered San Carlos valley occupied by the Apache for 

 many generations. It is shown on page 24- 



An attractive Navajo blanket from the Museum's valuable collection. The Navajo 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 corresponding case of pottery 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. [See Handbook No. 2, Indians of the Southwest.] 

 Return to the Jesup Statue. 



