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The role of the Clown in carrying out the educational process for children and the rest of the community was explained - particularly the Clowns' ability to create disorder and order or balance it again, leaving behind a message for the audience on what constitutes personal responsibility in respect to a community's survival.
Peggy V. Beck - The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life
White Mountain Apache Crown Dancer photographed by Matika Wilbur for Project 562
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White Mountain Apache Crown Dancer
Gallup, New Mexico August 2012
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White Mountain Apache Crown Dancers
New Mexico September 2012
The Mountain Spirits ensure the well-being of the people by protecting them from epidemic diseases and enemies. The Mountain Spirit Dancers or Crown Dancers "become" these sacred beings. The Western Apache call them the Gaan while the Eastern Apache know them as Gaa-he'. Once he made the Apache, the Life-Giver set them on the earth and taught the tribes the Lifeway. Among the Lifeway's tenets were generosity, respect and kindness to others. The Life-Giver sent the Apache the Gaa-he' as helpmates. The Gaa-he' demonstrated the Lifeway to the Apache and gave them strong medicine to fight disease and rituals to invoke blessings. Eventually, the Apache acted badly and the Gaa-he' left to live in the mountains.
When the Apache tired of their wicked ways, they found messages left by the Gaa-he' in caves in the sacred mountains. By imitating the dress and dance of the Gaa-he', which was revealed to them through the cave drawings and through the revelations of the medicine men, the performers of those rites could be touched by their power. The Gaa-he', represented by mountain spirit dancers, continues to play an important role in Apache life. Energetic dances summon the Gaa-he's power and are accompanied by singing and music. Symbols such as the sun and moon, white triangles representing the sacred mountains, and evergreen boughs, absorb harmful spirits and intercede on behalf of the ill.
