MooNEYi PAWNEE DANCE VIKJO SHOT 335 



approach the Pawnees, and selecting someone, wonld present themselves before 

 him, holdinjj out tho stick. Thereupon he would arise, place his hands upon the 

 donor's head in a solemn, reverential manner, as if blessing, pass them down the 

 sides, following the arms, take the stick, and sit down. Each stick thus given was 

 a pledge from the giver to the receiver for a pony, to be given when the visitors are 

 ready to return to their country. Old men, from time to time addressing the Kiowas, 

 urged them to liberality, to show the largeness of their hearts and the warmth of 

 their friendship by giving ponies to these poor Pawnees, who had come so far to see 

 them and renew their friendship, and not allow them to return on foot, as they 

 came. I know not how many ponies were thus pledged to them, but there must 

 have been many. 



At the conclusion of the ceremony the Pawnees arose in a body, ceased their song, 

 took up their flag, and a part following one Kiowa chief and a part another, accom- 

 panied them to their lodges to partake of their hospitality. The head chief, with 

 four or five others, including the flag bearer, accompanied Kicking-bird to his lodge, 

 thus becoming his guest. 



In tlie afteruoon the visitors gave a Pawuee war dauce, of which 

 Battey wisely remarks: 



I shall not render myself ridiculous by attempting to describe that which is inde- 

 scribable. . . . Individuals occupied the intervals betveen the 

 dances by narrating their own former valorous exploits, not even 

 omitting that their victims were in some instances Kiowas, con- 

 cluding by throwing their war implements upon the ground with 

 such force, in case of tomahawk or hatchet, as to cause the metal 

 to ring. Then, with gesture of covering it up, they would go 

 away, leaving it to lie there; thus intimating that, though they 

 had been foolish and fought, they now rejoiced in the beams of 

 peace aud hoped that the red men everywhere might live in peace 

 one with another; all of which was received by the Kiowas with 

 the loud response of "How! how! Yes! jea'." {Battel/, ~!0). 



SUMIHER 1872 



This summer there was uo sun dance, and in con- 

 sequence the medicine lodge does not appear on either rio. 152— summer 

 calendar. i872-vie,io8Uot. 



For this summer the Auko calendar has two connected human fig- 

 ures, together with what he explains as a "mule's head" above the 

 medicine pole. Between the forks of the pole is another linman head, 

 where be commenced to draw the first figure, but found that he had no 

 room. The joined human figures refer to a drunken fight between 

 Sun-boy and T'enc-zepte, "Bird-bow" ( !), growing out of some whisky 

 smuggled in by Mexicans, in which Sun-boy shot his antagonist with 

 an arrow. The mule's head indicates a raid into Kansas, in which the 

 Kiowa captured a large number of mules. This may have been the 

 same raid in which Biako was shot. 



The Set-t'an calendar has a picture of a man wounded in the chest, 

 with a tree above his head to show that the event occurred in summer. 

 This has reference to a skirmish with the whites in which a Mexican 

 captive named Biako (Vie jo) was shot, but afterward recovered. He 

 was one of those selected for confinement in Florida a few years later, 



