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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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FiH. 141— Sainmor 

 1867— Black-ear 

 stoleu ; the Kd'- 

 itseuko. 



liue of Oklahoma. The Cheyenne also attended. While the dance 

 was in progress a party of Navaho stole a herd of Kiowa iionies, includ- 

 ing a fine white racer with black ears, the kind most highly prized by 

 the Indians. The Kiowa had no idea that the horses 

 had been stolen by lurking enemies, but supposed that 

 they had simply strayed, until after the dance was over, 

 when the three tribes organized an expedition against 

 the jSFavaho, at that time upon a reservation in eastern 

 s / New Mexico, and there captured a number of horses, 

 -\^^ including the stolen herd. The event is recorded on the 

 ^^2^^ Set-t'an calendar by means of the figure of a white horse 

 ^^^^H with black ears above the medicine lodge. 

 H H This dance is also designated as Ed'itsenko Edopiin-de 

 H H E'ddoj " Sun dance when the EAUsenlio were initiated" 

 ^ (and further distinguished from similar occasions by 

 describing it as '■'■A'guntd P\i-gya, '' on Washita river"), 

 from the fact that on this occasion the members of this 

 order made new sashes for themselves. Some who had 

 acted in a cowardly manner were degraded at the same time, their 

 sashes stripped from them and given to others more worthy (see 

 summer 1846). The event is Indicated on the Anko calendar by 

 means of a figure above the medicine lodge rei^resenting a man with 

 the Kditsenko headdress and sash. 



WINTER 18G7-G8 



A'yd'daldd Sat, "Timber-hill winter," so-called 

 on account of the famous treaty made this winter 

 with the confederated tribes on Medicine-lodge 

 creek, Kansas, known to the Kiowa as ^^ A'yd'daldd 

 P''a, Timber-hill river." The picture on the Set- 

 t'an calendar is highly suggestive. It represents 

 a white man, who appears to be a soldier, grasping 

 the hand of an Indian, the locality being shown 

 by the figure of a tree-covered hill above the win- 

 ter-mark. 



The Anko calendar has no reference to this 

 treaty, which is the leading event in Kiowa his- 

 tory of the last thirty years, but records instead 

 a minor occurrence, the killing by the Kiowa of a Navaho, indicated 

 below the winter mark by the figure of a man with his hair bunched in 

 Navaho fashion, wearing the characteristic black leggings and moccasins 

 and carrying a quiver. He was killed near Giiddal Doha, on the ui>per 

 South Canadian, by a party under White-horse, of which Anko was a 

 member. On examining the body of the dead man they found that he 

 had no ears, having probably been so born. For this reason the winter 



Flo. 142— Winter 1867-68— 

 Mediciue Lodge treaty; 

 Navabo killed. 



