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GERMAN SILVER — MARTINEZ CAPTURED 



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leugth with a row of silver, copper, or German-silver disks, gradually 

 decreasing in size toward the bottom, which was usually finished 

 off with a tuft of bright- colored horsehair. They were called gom- 

 d'dal-hd'iigya, " back-hair-iuetal," and were highly 

 prized by the warriors. This was not the first time 

 the Kiowa had obtained German silver. In the 

 old days these ornaments were made for them, of 

 genuine silver, by Mexican silversmiths near the 

 present Silver City, New Mexico. 



Charles W. Whitacre (or Whittaker), the trader 

 who brought their su^jply of metal on this occasion, 

 together with sugar and other goods, had some 

 knowledge of the Kiowa language, as well as of 

 Comanche and Caddo, and is familiarly known to 

 the older Kiowa as TsdJi, i. e., Charley. He was 

 present at the Medicine Lodge treaty the next year, 

 and afterward kept a trading store on the north 

 side of the Washita, near the place where the 

 "Wichita school is now located, a short distance from the agency at 

 Anadarko. He was killed by accidentally shooting himself about 1882. 



Fig. 139— Snmmer 1866— 

 German-silver sun 

 dance. 



A'pamd'dal 

 The name sig 



Fig. 140 — Winter 

 1866-67 — Apam- 

 d'dalte killed. 



WIKTEE 186G-G7 



Ehotal-de Sdi, " Winter that A'piima'dalte was killed." 

 nifles "Struck-hishead-against-a-tree." The same event 

 is recorded on both calendars, the figures being suf- 

 ficiently suggestive. He was a Mexican captive among 

 the Kiowa, and was killed, in an encounter with troops 

 or Texans, while with a party led by the present Big- bow, 

 at a small creek on the main emigrant road to California 

 {Hf'mn T''d'kd-l, "White-man's road") in southwestern 

 Texas. When killed he was trying to stampede the 

 horses which the Texans had left a short distance away. 

 There is no official notice of this encounter in the reports, 

 beyond general references to continual Kiowa raids into 

 Texas. 



In this winter, also, Andres Martinez, the most in- 

 fluential captive among the Kiowa, was bought by them 

 from the Mescalero Apache, who had captured him a 

 few months previously near Las Vegas, New Mexico. 

 He was then seven years of age, and was adopted by 

 the Kiowa, and at once taken by them on a raid into 

 Mexico. His purchaser was Set-daya-ite, "Many-bears," 

 who was killed by the Ute in 1868. 



SU3IMER 1867 



Td-Mii A'senitse-de Kddd, "Sun dance when Black-ear was stolen. 

 This dance was held on the north bank of the Washita, near the western 



