Edgar Perry/White Mountain Apache Culture Center and Museum 3 (1976)

Summary: 
Apache/Ndee historian Edgar Perry continues his discussion of Apache history and culture (continues from first and second videos in this series).
Description: 

Continuing from White Mountain Apache Culture Center and Museum (Apache History 2, ca. 1976)… Edgar Perry, in the museum, holds up a two-piece Apache camp dress, a person off-camera person holds the mic nearby; Perry then holds up a checked blanket with tassels; (at 2:02) then speaking into a mic and standing next to wooden board hanging on the wall on which are attached old photos, a buckle an old comb, a knife, a tin cup, a horseshoe, and other things he describes; then Perry in another room speaking with the mic and kneeling next to a saddle on a wooden saddle stand; then Perry standing near a wall of portraits focusing first on one of Geronimo as an old man, scene repeats and he continues to one of Geronimo’s wives (possibly Ta-ayz-slath?), Chiricahua Chief Benito as a a young and older man, a medicine man, Chief William Alchesay, Geronimo posing with three other Apache men, all holding rifles, a photo of Geronimo’s capture in a wooded clearing, Geronimo standing in the distance in a long line of warriors, then a group of Geronimo posing with warriors and perhaps female family members, a medicine man, then two children hugging, then a puberty-aged girl, then three puberty-aged girls posing with pollen and chalk on their faces, then another alone standing in profile holding a flat basket/plate and tus jug; then a woman carrying a basket hung from her head down the back, carrying vegetation; Perry then points out three burden baskets in progress hanging on the wall, and then a finished one; then to a photograph of several men posing by a building from the early 1900s, then two women posing on horseback and others standing nearby, then a puberty-aged girl holding a basket of flowers, then a baby in a cradleboard, then a wide shot of Fort Apache, then two photos of Whiteriver (Chʼilwózh), then a family posing on three donkeys in profile; then a picture of two others on donkey bringing back some of the harvest, then a woman, two girls and a boy posing wearing blankets and holding a tus, then a family unit — three women, two men and two children — posing outside of a wickiup, then two women posing with a baby in a cradleboard, then two girls posing wearing blankets, then a man and woman posing (David and Helen Cane — spelling?) standing next to the Kinishba Ruins, then Chief Alchesay and nine other men posing, then Chief Alchesay as an old man, then again posing outside a wickiup with his wife, then a girl and boy posing, then Chief Alchesay, General George Crook (with his donkey) and another man posing, then Chief Alchesay posing with other cowboys on horseback, then a younger Chief Alchesay posing with cowboy hat in hand, then a head/shoulders portrait of Chief Alchesay, then Chief Alchesay and John Dayson (spelling?) posing, then a woman posing with two boys, then a woman posing with baskets, then a head/shoulders portrait of a woman wearing eagle feathers and elaborate bead necklaces, then two women carrying bundles of branches off their foreheads, then a woman with the tip of her nose cut off (and some scarring on her cheeks) posing, then old Geronimo wearing a hat with two horn-like peaks, then a girl collecting water from the river and her horse nearby, then a group of Apache kids posing behind a young white boy — a large long-house looking structure under construction behind; (at 19:53) Perry pointing to a fancy, two-piece metal-beaded buckskin dress for puberty-aged girls; he then points out three burden baskets hanging on the wall; then Perry points out smaller beaded items on a table — a wallet, a bottle covering, a tiny burden basket and other objects; the camera then switches to the wall full of beaded items — belts, headbands, barrettes, and necklaces, and then to another wall full of beaded necklaces, neckties, earrings, keychains, and a cradleboard; Perry standing in front of a painting of an Apache crown dancer, a vase of arrows and a sign that reads “Indian Village” as he demonstrates parts of the arrows; he then points out a mantel with different kinds of trophies and a display of arrowheads, and picks up a bundle of white sticks (for the game), a spur, a black Apache scout dress helmet with an eagle symbol and spike on top to which is attache a plume of horse hair and turkey feathers, then the canteen and jacket that goes with the whole uniform; and finally he pulls down a framed newspaper article on Willie Major and Perry’s grandfather. 


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