Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 129-444))

by James Mooney

WINTER 1885—86

Fig. 180—Summer 1886—No sun dance; Policemen; Grass payment.

For this winter both calendars record a prairie fire which destroyed all the tipis and much of the other property of T'ébodal's and Â'dal-pepte'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 flames.