An Apache girl and her relatives run during her Sunrise Dance on the San Carlos Reservation Arizona USA
An Apache girl dressed in buckskin dress runs during her Sunrise Dance a first menstruation rite the San Carlos Indian Reservation Arizona USA She runs four times each time a little bit longer This symbolises the four stages of life Close behind her godmother and relatives follow the women dressed in camp dresses The food snacks and drinks on the ground symbolise a life without material want The Sunrise Dance is supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life The ceremony is also an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl becomes Changing Woman a mythical female figure and comes into possession of her healing powers
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