MOOSEY] 



PAYMENT FOR GRASS LEASES 



355 



Fig. 182— SiuiinitT 

 1887 — iS' o Bun 

 (lance (?); Grass 

 payment. 



went out and shot hiniseif with a revolver. Indians are very sensitive 

 to reproof or ridicule, and sulfides among them from this cause are more 

 frequent than is generally supposed. 



The Set-t'an calendar has above the winter mark the figure of a man 

 holding a pistol, and with a wound in his side, the blood gushing from 

 his mouth. The Anko calendar has a pistol below the winter mark. 

 Two circles (dollars) above tlic winter mark have evi- 

 dently been placed there inadvertently. 



SUMMER 1887 



K'adolui F^a K'ddo, "Oak creek sun dance." Accord- 

 ing to the Set-t'an calendar, there was no sun dance this 

 summer and everybody remained at home — indicated as 

 before by the figure of a leafy tree above a square inclos- 

 ure. This, however, is a mistake. The agent states that 

 "the Kiowas held this year a sun dance with my permis- 

 sion, but with a distinct understanding that it should be 

 the last, and (it) was not of a barbarous uature" (Report, 

 109). The dance was held near the mouth oiKadolvt P'a, " Oak creek," 

 a small southern tributary of the Washita above Eainy-mountain 

 creek, and takes its name from the stream on which it was held. As 

 the wild buffalo had now been exterminated, the animal for this occa- 

 sion was bought from a ranchman named Charles Goodnight, wlio had 

 a small herd of domesticated bulfalo in northern Texas. 



The Anko calendar has several circles, for dollars, 

 below the medicine pole, to indicate another pay- 

 ment of grass money, of which again there is no official 

 record. 



The name of the creek on which the dance was held 

 was originally Do'f/ita Phi, "Oak creek," but in conse- 

 quence of the death of a woman named Do t/otii about 

 1891, the name was tabooed according to tribal custom, 

 and the stream is now known as K aiUlia Phi, from an 

 old word which conveys the same idea. 



WINTER 1887-88 



This winter the Indians received a large number of 

 FiG.iss-Winter cattle from the stockmen in part payment for their grass 



1887-88-Cattl6 '^ . •' m 



payment. Icascs; the remainder was paid m money. These were 



the first cattle received from that source. A number of 

 the Indians refused to accept them and insisted on money, while 

 quite a large number refused to have any part in the leases, believ- 

 ing it to be a plot to deprive them of their lands. The event is indi- 

 cated on both calendars by the figure of a cow's head in connection 

 with the winter mark. 



