At the end of July, in a forest clearing in the heart of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, a 13-year-old girl braved a coming-of-age ceremony marking her initiation into womanhood. Teepees and ...
Photographer Jan Butchofsky believes that no one person among the Mescalero Apache knows every aspect of what’s involved in the 12-day coming-of-age ceremony that serves as a girl’s initiation into ...