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Salt rivers, where they practice agriculture, gather the 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. They live in grass- 

 thatched houses or in the open under the shade of flat-topped, open- 

 sided shelters. In an adjoining alcove is being prepared an industrial 

 group with painted background showing the well-watered San Carlos 

 valley occupied by the Apache for many generations. 



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

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



The Eastern Apache lived in buffalo-skin tipis. They went far out 

 on the plains in search of the buffalo hertls, avoiding, if possibl(\ 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 neighl)ors. 

 The baskets of the Apache are showai 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, Indians of the Southwest.] 

 [Return to the Jesup Statue.] 



