American Indians : first families of the Southwest . degree. Where one or two groups honestly and con-scientiously earned their reputation for murderous cunning, the tribe as a wholehas been greatly maligned. The old mother peacefully, contentedly weaving herself into a basket is anApache, every drop of her blood, as much as Victorio or Geronimo when they weremurdering settlers and baffling the United States government. Yet, with all theevidence of her domesticity, this Apache matron is by no means a paragon. Forone thing she is a gambler to the marrow—gambling is a national pastime amongthe A
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American Indians : first families of the Southwest . degree. Where one or two groups honestly and con-scientiously earned their reputation for murderous cunning, the tribe as a wholehas been greatly maligned. The old mother peacefully, contentedly weaving herself into a basket is anApache, every drop of her blood, as much as Victorio or Geronimo when they weremurdering settlers and baffling the United States government. Yet, with all theevidence of her domesticity, this Apache matron is by no means a paragon. Forone thing she is a gambler to the marrow—gambling is a national pastime amongthe Apache men and women. They have games with sticks that are thrown intoa circle, counting according to whether the round or fiat side fails upward. Theyuse Spanish cards, and full decks made of horsehide and marked with great careare not unusual. All of the Apache women make baskets, some of them water-tight to be usedas jugs. The one grandmother is weaving about herself is to be used as a store forgrains and vegetables. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. >-on<z<a:OuIo<a.<z < UJ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Basketry Still a Living Art Among Certain of the Indians Relatively few tribes of American Indians understood pottery, except in thecrudest form. As for basketry, it may be said that every Indian from the landof the Esquimaux down through Mexico was a basket weaver. True, to manyit meant little more than plaiting a grain receptacle of coarse willows, or for a cradle, or even to be used as shelter and clothing. Contrast this, purely utilitarian 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