270 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA (eth.anx. 17 



present Fort Reno, Oklahoma. The soft white jjortiou of the lower 

 part of the stalk of this ru.sh is eaten raw by the ludiaus with great 

 relish. The picture above the medicine lodge represents the talme 

 biimkd-i or rawhide box in which the tame is kept. 



It was immediately after this dance that a war party of Kiowa made 

 the raid far down toward the coast in which they captured Boin-edal 

 (Big-blond), now the oldest captive in the tribe. This man, sometimes 

 known to the whites as Kiowa Dutch, was born in Germany and is now, 

 according to his own account, about 70 years of age. He remembers 

 having gone to school in Germany as a small boy, and came to this 

 country, when about 8 or 9 years of age, with his father, stepmother, and 

 an elder brother. He describes the place where they located as being 

 a small settlement on a large river, up which ships could sail, where 

 there were alligators and trees with long moss, and which was within 

 a day's ride of the sea. The people were engaged in raising cotton, his 

 family being the only Germans. From other evidence it 

 seems to have been about Matagorda or Galveston bay, 

 showing that the Kiowa carried their raids in this direc- 

 tion even to the coast. Within a year of their coming, 

 and before he had learned English, a Kiowa' war party 

 attacked the settlement at night, carried off himself, his 

 mother, and his brother, and probably killed his father; 

 his mother was taken in another direction and he never 



I saw her again ; she was afterward ransomed by Tomete, 



the trader already mentioned ; his brother committed sui- 

 cide during the cholera epidemic of 1S49; Boifi-edal is still 

 with the tribe. As his name indicates, he is a typical Ger- 

 man in appearance, and still remembers a few words of his 

 mother language, besides having a fair knowledge of Eng- 

 FiG. 71— Winter Hsh aud Spanish, although he does not remember his own 

 1835-36 — Big. ji^me or birthplace. It was about the same time that the 

 Comanche raided Barker's fort, on the jSTavasota, in east- 

 ern Texas, and carried ofl' the girl Cynthia Parker, who afterward 

 became the mother of Quauah, the present chief of the tribe. The story 

 of these captives may have a hundred parallels among the three con- 

 federated tribes. 



Wi:PirTER 18.35 -.36 



To'-edalte (Big-face) was shot through the body and killed by the 

 Mexicans while on a raid into old Mexico. This is Set fan's statement, 

 which is borne out by the picture of a man, whose name is indicated 

 by the figure of a big head or face above. Other informants, however, 

 deny any knowledge of such a man, and in the notes accompanying the 

 Scott calendar he is called Wolf-hair. The gunshot wound is ind'.cated 

 in the ordinary way. 



