When the ceremony is concluded, a supper is provided for all. General conversation and levity while away the hours, the talk consisting principally, however, of sage advice from relatives to both husband and wife as to how they should conduct themselves in future. At dawn the party disperses, the young man taking his bride with him. [Illustration: Mescal Harvest - Apache] Mescal Harvest - Apache _From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis_ APPENDIX [Illustration: White River Valley - Apache] White River Valley - Apache _From Copyright Photograph 1903 by E.S. Curtis_ TRIBAL SUMMARY - THE APACHE LANGUAGE—Athapascan. POPULATION—Fort Apache Agency, Arizona (White Mountain Apache), 2,072. San Carlos Agency: San Carlos Apache, 1,066; Tonto Apache, 554; Coyoteros, 525. Tonto Apache on Beaver Creek, 103. Total Apache of Arizona (not including the so-called Mohave Apache and Yuma Apache), 4,320. Mescaleros in New Mexico, 460. Jicarillas in New Mexico, 784. Chiricahua Apache at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 298. Kiowa Apache in Oklahoma, 155. Grand total of Apache tribes, 6,017. DRESS—The primitive dress of the men was deerskin shirt (_ĕpŭntltésĭs_), leggings (_ĭsklé̆tlĭkai_), and moccasins (_ĕpú̆nkĕ_). They were never without the loin-cloth, the one absolutely necessary feature of Indian dress. A deerskin cap (_cha_), with attractive symbolic ornamentation, was worn; but for the greater part the headgear consisted of a band braided from the long leaves of the yucca, which they placed rather low on the head to keep the hair from the eyes. The dress of the Apache women consisted of a short deerskin skirt, high boot-legged moccasins, and a loose waist which extended to the hips and was worn outside the skirt. Both skirt and waist were ornamented with deerskin fringe and latterly with metal pendants. The men’s hair always hangs loose; it is never braided. At time of mourning the hair is cut horizontally just above the shoulder line. Apache matrons, like the men, do not braid the hair, but let it hang loosely over the shoulders. The maidens tie their hair in a low long knot at the back of the head, to which is fastened a decorated deerskin ornament, denoting maidenhood. So arranged it is called _pĭtsĭvé̆sti_, and the wrapping, _tsĭgé̆_.