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CALENDAR HISTORY OP THE KIOWA 



[ETH. ANN. 17 



Fig. 123 — Summer 185S— Timber-circle sun dance. 



north, near the mouth of Medicine-lodge creek ; it was so called because 

 held in a natural circular opeuiug in the timber, as indicated in the 



figure repre.sentiug a circle of 

 trees iiround the medicine lodge. 



WIXTEK 185S-59 



Gi'ii-Jc cite EJwtal-de Sai, " Win- 

 ter that Wolf-lyiug-down was 

 killed." The figure above the 

 winter mark represents a man 

 shot through the body, his name 

 being indicated by the connected 

 figure overhead. 



After the last sun dance, the 

 Kiowa warriors 

 made a great 

 raid into Chi- 

 huahua and cap- 

 tured a number 

 of horses. They had recrossed the Eio Grande and 

 camijed on the northern side, when they were attacked 

 at sunrise by a jjursuing party of Mexicans. The Indians 

 fled and escaped, excepting Gui-k'^te, "Wolf-lying- 

 down," who rode a mare which was delayed by a colt 

 in following, and was therefore unable to get away 

 from the enemy, who shot and killed him. 



Set-t'aiiite and Set-imkia also went against the Ute 

 this fall and found and attacked a single tipi on the 

 upper South Canadian, killing one man and wounding 

 several others. 



SUMMER 1859 



AMn-doha E'ddo, "Cedar-blutt' sun dance." The 

 figure at the side of the medicine lodge 

 is intended to represent a cedar tree on 

 a blufl'. 



This dance was held at a place known 

 to the Kiowa as ''Cedar bluft'," on the northern side 

 of Smoky-hill river (Pe P'a, "Sand river'*), about 

 opposite the mouth of Timber creek, near the pres- 

 ent Fort Hays, Kansas. The Kiowa state that they 

 went so far north on account of the abundance of 

 buffalo in that vicinity. This dance is sometimes 

 also called Aii'ohJn-de K'ddo, "Timber-clearing suu 

 dance," from the fact that most of the trees once 

 there had been cut down. 



Fig. 124 — Winter 

 1858-59— Giii-k'ilte 

 killed. 



Fig. 125 — S u m ni p r 

 1859— Ceclar-bUiir 

 sun dance. 



