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erected a tipi with a raised platform inside, upon which, as upon a bed, 

 he placed the bundle containing his son's bones. He then made a feast 

 within the funeral tipi, to which he invited all his friends in the name 

 of his son, telling them, " My son calls you to eat." From that time 

 he always spoke of his son as sleeping, not as dead, and frequently put 

 food and water near the platform for his refreshment on awaking. While 

 on a march the remains were always i)ut upon the saddle of a led horse, 

 as when first brought home, the tipi and the horse thus burdened 

 being a matter of personal knowledge to all the middle-age people of 

 the tribe now living. He continued to care for his son's bones in this 

 manner until he himself was killed at Fort Sill about a year later, when 

 the Kiowa buried them. Although a young man, Set-iingya's son held 

 the office of Toiihyopdd', the pipe-bearer or leader who went in front 

 of the young warriors on a war expedition. 



The Anko calendar records two incidents. The first was a drunken 

 fight between two Kiowa, in which one killed tlie other, indicated by 

 the rude representation of two heads with a bottle 

 between them. The other event was the killing of four 

 or five negroes in Texas by a party led by Mamii'nte 

 ("Walking-above),'' who brought back the scalps with 

 the woolly hair attached. It is shown on the calendar 

 by means of a figure with bullet and arrow wouuds, drawn 

 below the heads and the bottle. An attempt has been 

 made to indicate the peculiar woolly hair of the negro; 



Fig. 149— Slimmer \ •' * ' 



1871— settaiuh! the trouscrs are bluc, like those worn by soldiers, Anko 

 arrested; Kon- thinking they were probably soldiers, because, as he 



pate Idllert. ^ 11, 



says, " Negroes can't go alone." 

 In this winter Anso-giftni or Ansote, "Long-foot," the great medi- 

 cine keeper, died of extreme old age. He had been in charge of the 

 taime for forty years; consequently there was no sun dance for two 

 years until his successor was selected. 



SUMMER 1871 



For this summer the Anko calendar records the death of Konpii'te, 

 "Blackens-hiuiself," who was shot through the head in a skirmish 

 with soldiers. He was the brother of the noted raider, White-horse. 

 The event is indicated by the rude representation of a head struck by 

 a bullet. As there was no dance this summer, the medicine lodge is 

 not represented on either calendar. 



The great event of the summer was the arrest of the noted chiefs 

 and raiders, Set-t'ainte, Set-Jiugya and A'do eette, "Big- tree." The 

 figure on the Set-t'an calendar shows the soldier arresting Set-t'aiiite, 

 distinguished by the red war-paint which he always used. 



Notwithstanding the promises of good conduct which had induced 

 General Shei'dan to release Lone-wolf and Set-t'ainte when the tribe 

 had been brought to the reservation in December, 1868, the Kiowa 



