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and old men, in which everyone caught was butchered on the spot. 

 Two children were taken prisoners, a brother and sister — about 10 and 

 12 years of age, respectively — of whom more hereafter. The Kiowa lost 

 five men killed and a large number of women and children ; none of the 

 Osage were killed, as no fight was made. When the massacre was 

 ended, the enemy cut the heads from all the dead bodies, without scalp- 

 ing them, and placed them in brass buckets, one head in each bucket, 

 all over the camp ground, after which they set fire to the tipis and left 

 the place. When the scattered Kiowa returned to look for their friends, 

 they found the camp destroyed, the decapitated bodies lying where they 

 had fallen, and the heads in the buckets as the Osage had left them. 

 The buckets had been obtained by the Kiowa from the Pawnee, who 

 l>rocured them on the Missouri and traded them to the southern tribes. 

 For allowing the camp to be thus surprised the chief, A'date, was de- 

 posed, and was superseded by Doha, or Dohate, " Blurt'," better known 

 as Dohasiin, who thenceforth ruled the tribe until his death, thirty-three 

 years later. 



Among the victims of the massacre was a Kiowa chief who had been 

 present the previous winter at the attack on the American traders. 

 His friends buried with him a (juantity of silver dollars which had 

 formed his share of the spoil on that occasion. An old woman, the last 

 remaining person who knew the place of sepulture, died a few years ago. 



In this att'air the Osage also captured the tulme medicine, already 

 described, killing the wife of the* tarme keei)er as she was trying to 

 unfasten it from the tipi pole to which it was tied; her husband, An- 

 sote, escaped. In consequence of this loss, there was no sun dance 

 for two years, when, peace having been made between the two tribes, 

 as will be related farther on, the Kiowa visited the Osage camp, some- 

 where on the Cimarron or the Salt fork of the Arkansas, and recovered 

 it, afterward giving a horse in return for it. Dohasiin, who conducted 

 the negotiations, asked the Osage about it and offered a pinto pony and 

 several otlier ponies for it. The Osage said that they had it, and went 

 home and brought it, but in token of their friendship refused to accept 

 more than a single pony in return. On this occasion both taime images 

 were captured, together with the case in which they were kept. 



Two points in connection with this massacre deserve attention. 

 First, the Osage war party was on foot; this, as the Kiowa state, was 

 the general custom of the Osage and Pawnee, more especially the latter, 

 who are sometimes called Domdnli'lfif/o, "Walkers," by the Kiowa, 

 and was occasionally followed by other tribes, including also the 

 Kiowa, (xrinnell states that the Blackfeet always went to war on foot 

 (Orinnell, Blackfeet, 2). There was an obvious advantage in the prac- 

 tice, as a foot party could more easily travel and approach a hostile 

 camp without attracting observation, relying on themselves to procure 

 horses to enable them to return mounted. T'ebodal, when a young 

 man, was twice a member of a large Kiowa war party which went out 



