Anthropology Paper Apache Indians In this paper you will read about the many ways that the Apache Indians used different ways of technology to survive in there environment. They used many different farming tools in which helped them to grow crops and gather berries. As the years went on the Apache hunters hunted with bows and arrows and as the years went on and how they trade with other tribes and people they had adopted guns. So in this reading you will be reading about different types of tools that the Apache Indians used. The Apache Indians used many tools throughout the years as they got more involved with technology.
When they wanted to plant or to crush the seeds that they have gathered they used a seed beater that was made of twined openwork bakery (Taylor 56).
To store or to place any berries that they have gathered they had this coiled basket that they made in order to cook in or to store food. Since some Apache tribes lived in the forests and well-watered valleys the mainly depended on berries and hunting deer and antelope they had many ways that they could kill and gather the foods. To cut the berries from the branches the Apachean’s used a knife the is in the center of a wooden stick which they would sharpen in with a smoothed groove stone.
With the adoption of horses was a great discovery because it made hunting and carrying the goods much easier (Taylor 55).
The Essay on Apache and Cherokee Indians
The Apache Indians of North America prospered for years throughout Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. They were a religious society who believed in a “giver of life”. As any complex society today, The Apache had many inter-tribal differences, although the tribe as a whole was able to see through these conflicts. Women and the extended family played an important role in the society and also in ...
Also the Apache Indians had many tools that the used when they were on the hunt for food. They had a war club with also was made for war and hunting was made out of a stone head which was wrapped in buckskin on a wooden handle. They also used the common bow and arrow to hunt with as well. To cook the food that they had gathered the made the rope twister which was made out of small pieces of wood that had small rope attached to them, and to start the fire they moved the rope back and forth so that the wood would get hot and start to burn. (Taylor 56).
To separate the meat form the skin of the animal they had this small tool called the hide scraper which had a steel tip on the top of it and had a wooden handle. After they had captured the animal, this is where the horses came into place with a huge impact. The Apache Indian made a leather saddle in which the were able to place fruits and wild berries in there to make it easier to transport. The way that they carried there water supply was that they had a jar that was waterproof inside and out with pinon pitch that was made out of twined and can vary in sizes (Taylor 55).
So with all of these different kinds of tools the Apache Indian tribe was able to survive through the rough times in the summer through the winter. As the years went on the grew more attached to the items that they had made and that were really accentual to how they live and work.
Also how it was mentioned above that they adapted to the weaponry with guns so that was more technology that they had ever seen before and with the supply of guns it made it easier to hunt and to kill food.
