"Vintage Apache Playing Cards" Sticker

Collectors of vintage playing cards will like these Apache Cards stickers to sent to friends and other collectors on packages and letters. Hernando Cortes, through the soldier adventurers who accompanied him, is probably responsible for first introducing playing cards as a form of gambling to the natives of the Americas. A most interesting result of this indoctrination occurred over three hundred years later when Apache Indians in the Territory of Arizona painted cards that maintained the essential characteristics of those same sixteenth century Spanish designs. These Apache cards also manage to express in a most intriguing manner Apache culture and the forces that were working upon that culture in the latter half of the nineteenth century.