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APACHE WOMAN

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Western Arizona (Fort Apache Reserve) Apache Woman carrying a baby in a cradle on her back, taken around 1907.

You can see that her hair is unusually short:  she had probably cut it a few months earlier in mourning the death of a close relative.

The cradle is made of wooden slats which support the baby and overlap a vertical structure, while the frontal protection is assured by a series of osiers.

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