Playing Cards of the Apaches: A Study in Cultural Adaptation - Hardcover

Virginia Wayland; Harold Wayland; Alan Ferg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0978774604 ISBN 13: 9780978774608

Publisher: Screenfold Press, 2006

Synopsis

When Chiricahuas and Western Apaches could no longer obtain Mexican printed playing cards, they made their own cards on horsehide rectangles. The results combined Spanish and Mexican designs with traditional Apache motifs to create a unique folk-art genre. At least as early as 1581, Indian tribes in contact with Spaniards had access to paper cards in what is now northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest. When renewed hostilities with Mexico stifled trade, Apache painting of rawhide cards began about 1830 and continued for another century, with Chiricahua fugitives in northern Mexico using such cards as late as 1932. Based on four decades of research by Virginia and Harold Wayland, here is the definitive history of more than 100 packs of Apache playing cards in museums and private collections around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Screenfold Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978774604
• ISBN 13: 9780978774608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318