24 APACHE 
Salt rivers, where they practise agriculture, gather the wild products 
knee 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, 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. Jt is shown en page 22. 
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, Indians of the Southwest.] 
[Return to the Jesup Statue.] 
