MooNEY] MODE OF HUNTING ANTELOPE 309 



AVINTER 1860-Gl 



This winter is known as A'ddlkd-i Doha Sai, "Orazy-bluff winter." 

 While the Kiowa were encamped on the south side of the Arkansas, 

 near the western line of Kansas, a man named Gaa-bohonte, "Crow- 

 bonnet," the brother of tlie man who had been killed by the Caddo the 

 preceding summer, raised a party for revenge. They went to the 

 Caddo camp on the head of Sugar creek, in the present Caddo and 

 Wichita reservation, wliere they encountered a Caddo looking for his 

 horses. They killed and scal])ed him, and brought back with them the 

 scalp over which the Kiowa held a scalp dance at a bluff on the south 

 side of Bear creek {T'd-zdtd' P''n, "Antelope-corral river"), near its 

 head, between the Cimarron and the xVrkansas, near the western line 

 of Kansas. From the rejoicing on this occasion the place 

 took the name of Foolish, or Crazy bluff. 



The picture represents a man with a scalp on a pole, 

 while the projection at the upper end of the winter mark 

 indicates the bluff. 



About the same time a war party went into Texas, 

 but lost three men. 



The £(kA' or driveway for catching antelope was an 

 open corral of upright logs, stripped of their branches, 

 with an entrance, from which diverged two lines of posts 

 set at short distances from one another and covered with 

 blankets to resemble men. The antelope were surrounded 

 on the prairie and driven toward the corral until they 

 came between the converging lines of posts, when it was f,o. ugJ^nter 

 an easy matter to force them into the closed circle, where isBo-ei-crazy- 

 they were slaughtered. The ^o<rf' was used for catching ^luff winter. 

 antelope at any season of the year. It was not iised for deer, as the 

 deer could jump over an ordinary corral. 



For a description of another method, the dfdkagita, or "antelope 

 medicine," see Winter 1848-49. Antelope make regular trails from 

 their shelter places to their grazing grounds, and the Indians some- 

 times caught them by digging a large pitfall along such a trail — an 

 entire band assisting in the work — and carrying the excavated earth a 

 long distance away, so as to leave no trace on the trail, after which the 

 pitfall was loosely covered with bushes and grass. The hunters then con- 

 cealed themselves until the herd approached, when they closed in behind 

 and drove the frightened animals forward until they fell into the pit. 



Wild horses also were sometimes taken in driveways called fd-tseii- 

 zota' ("wild-horse driveway"), which were set iip near the water holes 

 in the Staked plain, usually in summer, when the streams were dry 

 and the animals were obliged to resort to these places for water. A 

 steep cliff was sometimes utilized to form one side of the corral or drive- 

 way. In hunting buffalo the Indians sometimes built converging lead- 

 ways to the edge of a cliff and then drove the animals over the precipice. 



