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Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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litarian basketry with the delicate weave of the PornoIndians—500 stitches to the square inch. Then there is the work of the Tularepeople, who weave yarn in with the vegetable fibre. Navaho wedding plaqueis an interesting piece of basketry, used in the Navaho marriage ceremony, but,strangely enough, made by the Paiute Indian. Other tribes known chiefly for theirfibre-weaving are the Inyo, the Chimehuevi, the Mission and the Hupa. The Apaches, whom we think of usually as warriors, are adepts in basketmaking and of the three great divisions of this people—Jicarillo, Mescalero andWhite Mountain—each shows distinctive characteristics in the art. Some of theApaches weave the fibre braids so closely that the basket becomes water-tightwithout further preparation. Ordinarily the baskets are made water-tight byapplication of pinon pitch inside and out. For decorative purposes in basketry the Indians use their own native dyes,as well as feathers, beads and bone. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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HOPI KATCINATRAY PAIUTEWEDDING BASKET Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Apache, Whose Name SignifiesEnemy^ For centuries which no pen has recorded, the Apache has been the mostnotable and the least noted of warriors. He has been the scourge of a territorygreater than Europe minus Russia. ****** j£ Leonidas had beenan Apache he would have killed off the Persian myrmidons, a handful at a time,without once being seen by them. The Apache whose very name signifies Enemy made war his work and hispastime from the time the white man first heard of him until Crook and Milesgathered in the last of the fighting Enemies and led them away prisoners. Physically the Apache was leather. Walls and doors were unknown to them.He was born out of doors, practically reared out of doors and, as a rule, died out ofdoors. And the woman of the Apache asked no odds when it came to meetinghardship. She followed her lord in his fights and in his flights on the hardest ofmarches, over desert and mountain crag. When

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