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SU30IEK 1845 



Fig. 93 — Summer 

 1S45 — Stone-neck, 

 lace sun dance. 



Tso-'lcodal K'ddo, "Stone-uecklace sun dauce." The figure above 

 the medicine lodge is intended to represent a girl, distinguished by 

 short sleeves, with a stone hanging from her neck. 



This dance, like the three preceding, was held on Kdih'> I'hi (Kiowa 

 Medicine lodge creek), which was a favorite stream 

 for the purpose, on account of the abundance there 

 of cotton woods, of which the medicine lodge was con- 

 structed. The event which distinguished the dance 

 was the death of a girl named Tsokodalte (for Tso- 

 kodalpiite), "Stone-necklace,"' who was much beloved 

 by her father, and the consequent wailing for her dur- 

 ing the season of the ceremony. 



WINTER 1845-46 



In this winter K'(Jdal-aka-i, "Wrinkled- neck," built 

 a trading post on the South Canadian. The picture 

 is sufficiently suggestive. This post was in the pan- 

 handle of Texas, on the north bank of the South Cana- 

 dian {Giiadal P'a, "Red river"), just above Bosque 

 Grande creek and about 2 miles above the entrance of Eed-deer 

 creek (Ko'gd-i P'a, "Elk creek"). It was in a swamjjy and well- 

 timbered location, just west of one of the main trails 

 from Arkansas river southward. It was owned by 

 William Bent, called by the Kiowa Maiitahak'ia 

 ("Ilook-nose-man," "Eomau-nose") who, in the spi-ing 

 of 1844, had built a trading post, as already noted, 

 at Oiladal Doha, higher up on the same river. Both 

 were in charge of a clerk known to the Kiowa as 

 K\>dal-ak;l-i, " Wrinkled-neck." 



I The removal of Bent's base of operations from the 



Arkansas to the Canadian seems to have marked the 

 southward drifting of the tribes, in consequence of 

 the destruction of the buffalo and the encroachments 

 of the Dakota, as noted by Fremont and other west- 

 ern explorers of this period. At the same time the 

 Kiowa had dealings with another trading post, kept 

 by William Allison, known to them as Tsodal-heilte, 

 "No-arm," on Arkansas river at the junction ot upper 

 Walnut creek, in Kansas. As has been stated, the 

 first trading post ever established in their country was built by Chou- 

 teau, on Cache creek, near the present Port Sill. 



Fig. 94— Winter 1845- 

 46 — Wrinkled-necks 

 trading post. 



SUMMER 1S4(J 



Pd-guiiheilte Aopdn-dc K ddo, "Sun dance when Hornless-bull was 

 made a Ka'itseiik'ia." The figure beside the medicine lodge repre- 



