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The Apache Cupid

by | Sep 12, 2009 | True Westerners

Anthony Belvado’s loving hands keep alive an ancient courtship ritual.
It sounds so romantic: An Apache violin is meant to lure a young woman to the young man playing it. This courtship tool, most effective in the spring, dates from the 1800. Only a few Apaches still know how to make these instruments out of natural materials, and those who do are saving a dying art form that has been an important part of the Apache cultu


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