MooNEYi SPROUTING OF THE FORKED STICK 301 



brouglit back a large number of horses, but lost oue mau, "Going-on- 

 the-road." 



SUIOIER 1856 



Sefi-dh) K'ddd, "Prickly-pear sun dauce." The prickly-pears or 

 tunas {Opuntia tortispina ?) are shown above the medicine lodge. 

 This dance was held at a place where there was an abundance of 

 prickly-pears, at the mouth of a small creek, probably Caddo or Kate 

 creek, entering Arkansas river about 10 miles be- 

 low Bent's fort, in Colorado. It was held late in 

 the fall, when the prickly-pears were ripe, instead 

 of in midsummer, as usual, and the women gathered 

 a large quantity. This circumstance has given the 

 distinctive name to the h'ddo. The sweet fruit of 

 the tuna is much prized by the Indians, who eat it 

 raw, while the Heshy leaves are used as a mordant 

 in their painting upon buckskin. 



WINTER 1856-57 Flo.ll9-Summerl856- 



Prickly.pear sua 



D6-gyalc6dal-de Sai, " Winter that they left their 



tipis behind." The two tipis above the winter mark are intended to 



convey the idea. 

 After the last sun dance, while the Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho 



were still camped near Bent's fort, a Kiowa war party under Big-bow 



and Stumbling-bear went against the Navaho, while the rest, men and 

 women, under old Lone-wolf, went after buffalo, 

 leaving their tipis rolled up in care of Bent. On 

 their return they found the Cheyenne in possession 

 of their tiijis, and on complaining to Bent he said, 

 " I have given them to my people " (i. e., the Chey- 



Ieune). A quarrel ensued, in which the Cheyenne 

 shot Lone-wolf's horse and slightly wounded one 

 Kiowa and drove the others away, retaining pos- 

 session of the tipis. This api:)ears to have been the 

 most serious break between the two tribes since 

 they had made peace in 1840. 



F.o.l20-Winter 185^ SUMMER 1857 



57— Tipis left. .. , n r, ■ , , 



A'poto Ek idd(V-de K ado, "Sun dance when the 

 forked stick sprouted." The figure (121) represents a Jerked stick, with 

 leaves, growing out from the side of the medicine lodge. 



This dance was held on the north side of Salt fork of the Arkansas 

 {Atdntai P-a, "Salt river") at a small creek, probably Elm creek, a 

 considerable distance below upper Mule creek {Adoii P'a) in Oklahoma. 

 A Kiowa named K'aya'fite, " Falls-overa-bank," owned a sacred a'poto, 

 or twoprouged stick of « gotd or chinaberry wood about four feet long. 



