338 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA (eth.axn. 17 



Lone-wolf's brother. They were killed while on a raid in Mexico. Lone-wolf's 

 son was wounded in the knee a year ago last summer Avhile raiding in Texas, and 

 came near losing his life. This, it seem-s, did not satisfy his thirst for blood, and 

 the Kiowa determining to rai<l no more in Texas, he, the past autumn, went into 

 Mexico, where it appears he has been killed. The camp resounded with the death 

 wail, the song of mourning for the iinretmning braves mingled with the war whoop. 

 This was revived at stated intervals fur l^everal days {Batiey, :21). 



According to information given by tlie Indians to Battey, Lone- wolf's 

 son, with a few other young Kiowa waniora, had accompanied a raiding 

 party of Comanche into Mexico. On their return they were attacked 

 at a night camp by Mexican troops and tlie two Kiowa were killed. 

 The remaining Kiowa at once returned home witli the news, but the 

 Comanche crossed the Rio Grande into Texas and began a series of 

 raids on Nueces river, when they were attacked by soldiers and sev- 

 eral killed. The rest started for home, but meeting another party of 

 Comanche, they turned back with them and were again attacked by 

 the trooi)S, losing, in both encounters, twenty-two kilh d. A desire to 

 avenge these losses had much to do with the ferment among them 

 which led to the outbreak in the following summer; they also tried to 

 make it appear that the Kiowa had been raiding in Texas when killed, 

 in order to involve that tribe with themselves, although it seems 



beyond question that the Kiowa were killed 

 in Mexico and had not been engaged in 

 the Texas raids. 



Lone-wolf went to Mexico to bury the 

 body of his son, the sun dance having been 

 postponed in the meantime, and it is said 

 that on finding it he knelt down beside it 

 and vowed to avenge his death with the life 

 of a white man. A lot of government horses 



FiG.lSe—Snmnier 1874— The medicine were SOOn afterward stolcn from Fort Con- 

 lance; Bluff end sun dance. ^^^ ^^^, ^^,^^^ ^^ j^j rp^^^^g^ ^^^^ j^ ^^^^ charged 



that this was done by Lone- wolf and his party on their return, although 

 they denied it. The killing of his son was the chief reason assigned 

 by Lone- wolf for his part in the outbreak which followed {Baitey, 22; 

 Report, 91). 



SUMMER 1874 



Tsohahina-de E'ddo, "Sun dance at the end of the bluff'." The 

 dance was held at a place called Tsol-cddn, "end of the bluff," on the 

 south side of the North fork of Red river, above the junction of Elm 

 fork, at a mountain called by the Kiowa the " Last mountain," in Greer 

 county, Oklahoma. On the Anko calendar the blufi' is indicated by a 

 projection from one side of the medicine pole. 



At this dance Set-t'uiute, in thanksgiving for his release from prison, 

 gave his famous zebat, or medicine arrow-lance, to A'^to-fain, " White- 

 cowbird." brother of the chief Sun-boy, thus resigning his own chief- 

 tainship in favor A'to-fain. There were only two lances of this kind in 

 the tribe, both being regarded as medicine lances, the other belonging 

 to Tiiu-giiadal (see winter 1808-09). 



