An Apache girl dressed in buckskin dress dances at her Sunrise Dance on the San Carlos Indian Reservation Arizona USA
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An Apache girl dressed in buckskin dress dances at her Sunrise Dance a first menstruation rite the San Carlos Indian Reservation Arizona USA The girl holds a cane that symbolises longevity The Sunrise Dance is supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants 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