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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



[ETII. ANN. 17 



reports that for nearly four moutlis precediug the outbreak tbe rations 

 Lad fallen short, and expresses the opinion that if there had been a 

 full supply he could have held the tribe from the warpath. At the 

 same time they were being systematically robbed of their stock by 

 organized bands of horse thieves. The immediate cause of the out- 

 break by the Cheyenne in May, 1874, was the stealing by these men of 



Photo t.y Bell, 1888 



Fig. 51 — (Ini-piigo or T.oiie-wol 



, pre.sciit head chief ol' the Kiowa 



forty-three valuable ponies belonging to the chief, Little-robe. 



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attempting to recover them Little-robe's son was dangerously wounded, 

 in revenge for which the Cheyenne soon after killed a member of a sur- 

 veying party in the Kiowa country and at once began open hostilities 

 (Report, 34; Batiey, -I). 



