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carried with them tlie eye, hung at the end of a pole after the nianuer 

 of a seal]), aud danced over it as over a scalp on iirriviug at the camp 

 on the small stream, since called Tn'-higyii F'a, "Eye-triumph creek" 

 from this circumstance. 



It should be added that there were some skeptics who laughed at the 

 whole story and declared that the eye was that of an antelope which 

 P('idodal had secretly shot. 



On the Set-t'an calendar the event is indicated by a figure intended 

 to represent a scalj) at the end of a pole, carried by a man wearing a 

 stiiped robe to indicate his uame, Little-robe. On the Anko calendar 

 tliere is a representation of a scalp on a pole under the winter mark. 



SUMMER 1880 



This summer there was no sun dance, perhaps on account of failure 

 to lind butfalo, and instead of the medicine lodge the summer is indi- 

 cated on the Set-t"an calendar by the ligure of a leafy 

 tree above a squai-e figure, which is explained as mean- 

 ing that the author of the calendar stayed at home, the 

 lines being intended to show a space inclosed in a fence 

 after the manner of a wliite man's farm. A similar 

 device is several times used for the same purjiose in later 

 years. Under date of September 1, 1881 — a year later— 

 the agent says : 



Last year I was encouraged in the belief that the Indians under 



^ ,„„ _ niv charge were rather disposed to lav aside these ideas and 



Fig. 168 — Summer „ , 



1880 — Ko (lance- ceremonies, from the fact that very little was heard ot their 



riibtite (lied. medicine men during the year, aud the Kiowas failed to hold 



their annual "medicine dance." The latter jiart of this year, 



however, from some cause, their medicine luen have lieeii unusually active, as I learn 



has been the case at other agencies, and the Kiowas have recently returned from the 



western part of their reservation, where they held their annual dance (Beport, 101). 



The Anko calendar records the death of a chief named Piibote, 

 "American-hor.se." He was a man of unusual height and size, hence 

 his name, which signifies literally an animal taller than the average. 

 He was buried in a coffin by the whites at the agency nearlj' opposite 

 Fred's store. On the calendar the square figure below the picture of 

 the man, and connected with it by a line, is intended to represent the 

 coffin. 



On first explaining the calendar, in 1892, Anko evaded the mention 

 of this man's name, in accoidance with the Kiowa custom which for- 

 bids naming the dead, but three years later consented to do so. The 

 same objection was frequently encountered, but finally overcome in 

 regard to other names on the calendars. 



AVIXTER ISSO-Sl 



For this winter the Set-t'an calendar has a house over the winter 

 mark, but he could not remember whose house it was intended to rep- 

 resent. In Captain Scott's notes it is said to be Paul Set-k'opte's new 



