But it is relevant to a full account of what may have been taken and what would need to be returned.

Geronimo’s Personal Items And Their Significance

Geronimo’s military career and his decades of Apache life meant that the objects associated with him in life had specific historical significance.

He was an effective horseman — the Apache raider and warrior on horseback is one of the central images of the nineteenth-century Southwest conflict.

Horse-related items buried with him would have been personally significant objects, consistent with both Apache burial practice and with Geronimo’s specific life.

Geronimo was photographed with weapons during his Fort Sill period — most famously, a series of photographs in which he posed with a rifle.