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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



[ETH. ANN. 17 



it; but their old medicine man has since died, and his successor, unfortunately 

 a youug man of little ability or diaraeter, ordered that another he held this year. 

 The Comanche have no such ceremonial as an annual dance, and the 

 otiier tribes of the reservation have no medicine dance, but the ("ad- 

 does fre(iucntly meet together and dance for enjoyment, as wliite 

 jioople do (Report, lOS). 



The Aiiko calendar notes that the Comanche received 

 their first grass money tliis snmmer, shown by the circles 

 for dollars below the medicine pole, bnt with nothing to 

 indicate the tribe. The Kiowa did not make leases until 

 a year later. For some reason, perhaps on account of a 

 change of agents which occurred about this time, there 

 is no notice of this payment in the official report. 



WINTER 1SS5-SG 



Fig, 170— Winter 

 lSKo-86— C.imp 

 buriifd. 



For this winter both calendars record a prairie fire which 

 destroyed all the tipis and much of the 

 other property of T'cbodal's and A'dal- 

 l)epte's camps, northwest of Mount Scott, while most of 

 the tribe had gone to the agency for rations. The 

 Set-t'an calendar indicates the event by means of the 

 picture of a tipi, streaked with red for the fire, above 

 the winter mark. The Anko calendar has below the 

 winter mark a peculiar symbol, which he explains to 

 mean the rising tiames. 



SUMMER ISSG 



There was no dance this summer, owing to the failure 

 to find a buffalo for the purpose, conse- 



Fic. 180— Summer 

 ISiiO — \o sun 

 daucc: Pulice- 

 men ; Grass pay- 

 ment. 



Flo. 181— Winter 

 1880-87— I'e J i 

 commits sui- 

 cide. 



sion, he was 

 '■1 have no 



quently everybody remained at home — in- 

 dicated on the Set-t'an calendar by the figure of a leafy 

 tree, for summer, above an inclosure, intended to repre- 

 sent a field. 



As there was no dance, the Anko calendar for this 

 summer lacks the medicine pole, while by means of a star 

 ami several circles he records the fact that he enlisted 

 in the agency police force, and also that there was an- 

 other payment of grass money by the cattlemen, this time 

 to the Kiowa, being the first they had received. 



WINTER 1SS6-S7 



For this winter both calendars note the suicide of 

 Peyi, "Son-of-the-saud," nephew of the great chief Sun- 

 boy. Having taken a horse without the owner's perinis- 

 rejiroved for it, which so hurt his feelings that, saying, 

 father, mother, or brother, and no one cares for me," he 



