Chief Garfield
Apache Jicarilla
Photograph by Edward S. Curtis
Copyright 1904

The Jicarillas occupy a reservation of nearly
450 square miles of mountainous country in
northern New Mexico. Linguistically. of the
same stock as the Apache of Arizona. but
their dialect mythology. legends and medicine
rites more closely resemble those of the Navajo.
In dress the Jicarilla resemble the Plains Indians
with feather headdress which is never worn by other
Southern or Western tribes.

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