View of Apache camp, with canvas tipis
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.44767 J
label: Local Note
content: "Tepees in use by Mescalero about fifty years ago." --E. Ball letter, August 27, 1957.
label: Local Note
content: Print bears legend: Indian Village, M198 Alexander and ?Brown? [last name partly obliterated].
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Chiricahua Apache
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Re contradiction in Mrs Ball's estimates of date of this photo: since print submitted for copying appears to be from glass plate, the 50-years-ago estimate seems more probable. --MCB, Archivist.

"These are the [type of] tepees used by the Chiricahua before the soldiers destroyed many of them. After that they had little buckskin and used canvas or any covering they could find. Constantly harrassed into flight, they made shelters by bending willows or other small trees, fastening the end to the ground, and covering the framework with brush. These shown here were of canvas, photographed thirty years ago at Mescalero. Tepees always face the east." --Eve Ball.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (5x7 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1907
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs