Apache Cache

POST CARD TO DENI SEYMOUR, ARCHAEOLOGIST

AT THE HEARD MUSEUM, ON APACHE ANTLERS

Mobile people

and their stash.

Geronimo's wickiup.

Dateways and gateways.

A big wind brings down

your tipi. Cache

some food in a pot.

Cover your treasure

in yucca.

Rings and circles.

Don't look one way.

Earliest Apaches passed

through here, early 1300s.

Climb more mountains.

My mountain spirit headdress.

These antlers. These.

Know the way to water.

Co-occuring.

Not hard to find

See through answers

Rope to rope.

Llano estacado.

Knowing the way with no rope.

I heard someone else.

Protohistory.

One pen.

One spot of ink on paper.

Jim Bodeen

Heard Museum/Yakima