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big-head's death — FIGHT WITH TROOPS 



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Fig. 133-SuTnnierl863- 

 Xo - arm's • river sun 

 (lance. 



SUMMER 18G3 



Tsodalheiite-de P^a K'ddd, " No-arm's river sun dance." The figure 

 near the medicine lodge shows a man with his right arm gone. 



This dance was held on the south side of Arkansas river, iu Kan- 

 sas, at the Great Bend, a short distance below the 

 mouth of upper Walnut creek, called Tsodalliente-de 

 P'a, "Armless man's ci'eek," from a trader, William 

 Allison, who kept a trading store at its mouth, on the 

 east side, and who had lost his right arm from a 

 bullet received in a fight with his steiifather, whom 

 he killed in the encounter. From this circumstance 

 the Kiowa knew him as Tsodalhente, or sometimes 

 Man-heuk'ia, " Armless man " or " No-arm." He 

 had as partners his half brother, John Adkins, 

 known to the Kiowa as Kabodalte, " Left-handed," 

 and another man named Booth. Fort Zarah was built in the immediate 

 vicinity of Allison's trading post in 1864. 



WINTER 18G3-G4 



Adalton-i'dal Hi'm-de Sat, " Winter that Big-head died." The Set-t'an 

 figure is sufBciently suggestive. Adalton-edal was the uncle of the 

 present chief Goma'te (Comalty), who has taken the same name. He 

 died wlule the Kiowa were in their winter camp on the 

 Nortli Canadian, a short distance below the Junction of 

 Wolf creek at Fort Supply. 



The Anko calendar begins with this winter, the first 

 event recorded being the death of Ha'nzepho da, "Kills- 

 witha-gun." He is represented below the winter mark, 

 holding a gun to indicate his name, while the irregular 

 black marking above his head is intended to show that 

 he is "wiped out" or dead. 



I SUMMER 1864 



A'sahe K add, "Bagweed sun dance," so called because 

 held at a place where there was a large quantity of this 

 plant growing, at the junction of Medicine-lodge creek 

 and the Salt foi-k of the Arkansas, a short distance below 

 where the dances had been held in 1858 and 1802. On 

 the Set-t'an calendar the medicine lodge, instead of being 

 painted black, as usual, is blue-green, to show the color 

 of the plant {ii'-sdhe, literally "blue or green plant"), and is surmounted 

 by a blue-green stalk of ii'-sdhe or ragweed. 



In this summer the Anko calendar records a fight between the Kiowa 

 tribe and soldiers, at which Anko himself was present. In the figure 

 the ragweed is indicated by irregular markings at the base of the 

 17 KTH 34 



Fig. 134— Winter 

 1863-64 — Big- 

 headdies; Hdu- 

 zepho'da diea. 



