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CALENDAR HISTORY OP THE KIOWA 



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Fig. 145 — S II mm e r 

 18fi9 — War-bonnet 

 sun dance. 



medicine lauce, through marriage into the family of one of Tan-giuldal's 

 ancestors. Despite the protest of Tiin-guadal,he made a similar lance, 

 which he carried for several years (see summer 1874). This lance of 

 Sett'ainte is said to have had a separable ornamented wooden point, 

 which was inserted on ceremonial occasions, while an ordinary steel 

 blade was substituted when it was to be used in actual 

 service. Similar "medicine" lances for ceremonial 

 purposes were used also among other tribes. 



While this expedition was in Texas another party, 

 under Stumbling-bear, went up the Canadian to bury 

 the bones of those killed with Set-daya-ite in the 

 encounter with the Ute. 



SUMMER 1869 



A'taJid-i Gya''(/an-de K'ddo, ^^ San dance when they 

 brought the war-bonnet." On both calendars this sun 

 dance is designated by the figure of a war-bonnet 

 {(i-tahd-i, "feather crest") above the medicine lodge. 

 The dance was held on the north side of the North 

 fork of Red River, a short distance below the junction of Sweetwater 

 creek, near the western line of Oklahoma, the Kiowa having been 

 removed during the preceding .autumn from Kansas and the north to 

 their present reservation, but still ranging outside the boundaries, under 

 the hunting privilege accorded by the late treaty. While the dance was 

 in progress, Big-bow, who had gone with a large party against the Ute 

 to avenge the death of Set-dayii-ite the year before, re- 

 turned with the war-bonnet of a Ute whom he had killed 

 in the mountains at the head of the Arkansas, in Colorado. 

 By a curious chance this Ute was one whom the Cheyenne 

 or Arapaho had wounded and scalped on a former ex- ^h 

 pedition. The Ute had taken their wounded comrade to ^^M 

 the Mexicans of New Mexico, who cured him, only to die ^^M 

 soon afterward by the hand of a Kiowa. The facts in the W^^ 

 case were learned by Big-bow on his friendly visit to the ^^M 

 Ute in 1893. ■■ 



WINTER 1SG9-70 ^H 



Dombd Etpe-de Sai, "Winter when they were fright- f/^ 

 ened by the bugle." The circumstance is indicated on fig. i46— winter 

 both calendars by means of a bugle in connection with 

 the winter mark. 



This was a winter of chronic alarm, as the Cheyenne, the neighbors 

 and friends of the Kiowa, were on the warpath and were being hard 

 pressed by Custer. The Kiowa had made their winter settlement in 

 two camps on Beaver creek, near the junction of Wolf creek, in the 

 vicinity of the present Fort Supply, in Oklahoma. It was reported 

 that soldiers were in the neighborhood, and a party of young men went 



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1869-70— Bugle 

 scare. 



