Apache Gaan/Crown Dancer Headdress S10
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The origin ofthe Apache Gaan or Crown Dancer goes easily back before 1885, to the days before the Fort Apache, White Mountain, San Carlos, Yavapai, Tonto, and Fort McDowell Mohave reservations. Apaches are an assimilation of various Apachean tribes, thought to be a subgroup of Athabaskans, migrating south from Alaska through the Bearing Strait. Most Apache tribes were influenced more by the Plains Native Americans, than the local Pueblo Natives such as the Navajo, and developed their own territory and style by adapting to the conditions of local climate and terrain. From here, they began to establish their own unique tribal belief system with some of the Puebloan and Plains cultural traits mixed with their own. The Western-Apache Nation of today are primarily descendants of the White Mountain Band of a larger group. Western Apaches include such other groups as the Kiowas, the Mescalero, Chiricahua, Lipan-Apache, and Plains-Apache, living in East central Arizona. Apache religion is based on the idea that a series of powers exist in the universe which may be acquired and used by men, with one of the most potent being the power of the Gaans. The Gaans are supernaturals who live inside mountains and caves throughout Apache country and manifest themselves as masked dancers during the Gaan ceremony. They are often compared to pueblo
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