336 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA [kthann. .7 



and is still living and with the tribe. The fight took phxce iu the 

 course of a raid into Kansas by a small party of Kiowa under T'ene- 

 'taido, "Bird-chief," which was undertaken against the protests of the 

 other chiefs, who desired to bo at peace with the Americans. Near 

 Medicine-lodge creek, not far from the Kansas line, they were .joined 

 by some of the Osage, and soon afterward met a party of white men 

 in wagons, whom they thought were surveyors; a skiriiiisii ensued, 

 resulting in the wounding of the captive and one of the Osage. 



WINTER 1872-T;3 



Tiguiigo Tstin-de Sai, " Winter that the Pueblos came." In this winter, 

 whik^ most of the Kiowa were encami)ed on the Washita near Itainy 

 mountain, a party of Pueblo Indians and Mexicans visited them to 

 trade biscocho, or Pueblo bread, and eagle feathers for horses and 

 buttalo robes. The Kiowa were very fond of this bread and willingly 

 gave a pony for a small bag of it. The figure on the Set-t'an calendar 

 represents a Pueblo Indian, with his hair tied in a bunch behind, 

 driving before him a burro (donkey) with a pack 

 upon his back. The Kiowa say that the Pawnee 

 visited them late in the fall, while the Pueblo 

 party came in the winter, stopping south of Stum- 

 bling-bear's present camp. From an early period 

 the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande had carried 

 on a trade witli the southern plains tribes, with 

 Fio. 153— Winter 1872- whicli tlicy apjiear to have been always on friendly 

 1873-Pucbio visit; terms. This was the next to their final visit. 



battle tipl biirued. ...... ii i^i -i^ii 



The Aulio calendar records the accidental burn- 

 ing of a noted heraldic tipi, hereditary in the family of the great 

 Dohiisiin. It was known as the J)o f/liifii/ii fji'int, " Tij)! with battle 

 pictures," being ornamented with battle pictures on the northern side 

 and horizontal stripes of black and yellow alternating on the southern 

 side; it occupied the second place from the entrance in the camp circle 

 on ceremonial occasions. A small facsimile model has been dei)0sited 

 by the author iu the National Museum. Plate LXXix shows the 

 appearance of the buckskin model when open and S]iread out. 



The Kiowa, like the ])lains tribes generally, had an elaborate system 

 of heraldry, exemplified in the i)ainting and decoration of their shiel<ls 

 and tipis. Every prominent family had its heraldic tipi, which had 

 its appointed place iu the great camp circle of the tribe and descended 

 by inheritance from generation to generation. The system may form 

 the subject of a future study by the author. 



SUMMER 1873 



Tyngna P'a K'ddo, " INIaggot-creek sun dance,'' so called because 

 held on that stream, known to the whites as Sweetwater creek, a tribu- 

 tary of the North fork of Ked river, near the western line of the reser- 



