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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



[ETll. ANN. 17 



Fig. 175— ■Winter 1883-84 

 — Huusc built; chil- 

 dren taken; Sioux 

 diinci's. 



WINTER 18S3-8A 



For this Tsanter the Sett'au calendar has the picture of a house with 



sniokinu- chimuey beside a tipi. It appears to be a canvas house, such 



as those Indians in a transition state sometimes use. Sett'an exphrins 



it to meau that Big-tree was giveu a stove by the govermneut and put 



it into a hirge tii>i whicli he occupied; but Scott's 



informant, who is corroborated by Anko and others, 



explains it as meaning- that G;ikinrite, ■•Ten," the 



brother of liouewolf, built a house this fall on the 



south side of the Washita, about opposite Cobb 



creek. Stnmbling-bear says that he himself had 



received a stove as far back as 1875, two years 



I before the government built his house. 



The Anko calendar records the taking of a large 

 number t)f chiklren to the Chilocco Indian schotil, 

 near Arkansas City, Kansas. The Leavy drafts 

 maile during the term to furnish chiklren for Chilocco 

 and other schools very considerably reduced the 

 number of pupils in attendance at the reservation 

 schools; according to the agent's statement, seventy 

 were thus taken at one time (Ixeport, lOS). The figure 

 below the winter mark is intended to represent two 

 wagons tilled with children. 



Anko notes also that a party of Dakota came down to dance with the 

 Kiowa, indicated by the feather dance- wand at the side of the winter 

 mark. 



sranvrER i8S4 



There was no sun dauce this summer, and the Sett'an calendar has 

 only the figUre of a tree to indicate summer, with a 

 figure below intended to represent an inclosed field, 

 imiilying that the owner stayed at home. Gonqerning 

 this the agent says, under date of August 28: 



The Kiowas have danced less this ye.ar than usual, and they seem 

 to have giveu up tlieir annual medicine dance. Ibv as yet they have 

 said niithiiij; ;ibout it. The holdiug <if this dance has always lieen 

 a great occasion aud considered one of their most important cere- 

 monies, for thoy have believed it absolutely necessary to secure 

 their health and success in all their undertakings, either at war 

 ov in the chase. They have generally gone out on the plains from 

 40 to 60 miles from the agency and been absent from live to six 

 weeks. On several occasions since the buffalo disappeared, they 

 have suffered very much with hunger while out, and I hope we have 

 heard the Last of the dauce (lieporf. 104). 



The calendar of Anko for this summer notes the hauling of govern- 

 ment freight by the Kiowa, including himself, indicated by a figure of a 

 wa.gon where the medicine pole would otherwise be. This was in agree- 

 ment with a plan inaugurated several years before, by which those 



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Fig. 176— Summer 

 1884— ^^> 8UU 

 dance: Hauled 



freiglit. 



