MOONEY] 



IRON-SHIRT KILLED HORSE STOLEN 



295 



camped iittlie time on Konya'dnldil PVf, "Black-hill river," iu Kansas, 

 north of the Arkansas. Abont half the warriors of the two latter tribes 

 accepted the in^'itation, and the united force, mov- 

 ing with all their women, children, and tipi outfits, 

 started against the Pawnee. They met the enemy, 

 but were defeated, with the loss of the Cheyenne 

 chief Woifdoish, " Touch-the-clouds," called by the 

 Kiowa A'patiite, "Far-up," otherwise known as 

 Hant'(')gya-k'ia, "Iron-shirtman," from a cuirass 

 which he wore and which had probably been pro- 

 cured originally from Mexico, where the Kiowa 

 once captured another. 



Tlie ofticial report for the year thus notices the 

 encounter : 



A y\:\v party of Osages, Kioways, and Kaws, consisting of 

 about i'our hiuKlred warriors, went in pursuit of tlie Pawnees 

 while out on their last hunt. They overtook the Pawnees 

 and attacked them, but, being greatly outnumbered by the 

 Pawnees, they ingloriously tied, leaving on the ground one 

 war chief Ivilled, and having killed and scalped one Pawnee 

 •woman {Report, SI). 



WINTER 1852-53 



The Pawnee boy captured by Set-iingya in the 



summer of 1851 escaped, taking with him two 



horses, including the finest one in the tribe, a bay 



race horse known as G^ff^^/aV^st'j/^, "Little-red" or 



"Red-pet." The figure above the winter mark 

 shows the Pawnee boy, distin- 

 guished by the peculiar headdress 

 of his tribe, holding the bay (red) 

 horse by the halter. The importance of the horse 

 to the equestrian Kiowa is shown by the fact that 

 this is recorded as the important event of the 

 winter. 



SIJTttMBR 1853 



Buisot K'ddo, " Showery sun dance," so called 

 because there were continual showers during the 

 dance. The figure above the medicine lodge is 

 intended to represent the drizzling rain descending 

 from the black clouds overhead, with occasional 

 red tiashes of lightning. Compare the correspond- 

 ing rain and cloud symbols given below. The dance 

 was held at the same place where the " dusty " sun dance was cele- 

 brated in 1851, near the present Fort Supply. 



Fio. Ill— Winter 1852-53— 

 Gijadal-ts6yu stolen. 



Fig. 112- Sammerl853 

 Showery sun dauce. 



