Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance

by Leslie Spier

FOOTNOTES:

[ [1] Methvin, J. J., Andele, or The Mexican-Kiowa Captive. A Story of Real Life among the Indians (Louisville, Kentucky, 1899).

[ [2] Scott, Hugh Lenox, "Notes on the Kado, or Sun Dance of the Kiowa" (American Anthropologist, N. S., vol. 13, pp. 345-379, 1911). The phonetic system used in the present paper is that of the "Phonetic Transcription of Indian Languages" (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 66, no. 6, 1916), 2-7.

[ [3] Mooney, James, "Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians" (Seventeenth Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, part 1, pp. 129-445, Washington, 1911), 385.

[ [4] Lowie, R. H., "Societies of the Kiowa" (this series, vol. 11), 847; Mooney, 325, 338.

[ [5] Mooney, 253, states the contrary.

[ [6] Mooney, 240; Plate LXIX shows a model (see Scott, 349).

[ [7] This coupling of purchase with inheritance is strictly comparable to the Hidatsa bundle (this volume, 416-417).

[ [8] Scott, 369, 373.

[ [9] If this is more than a general taboo against women handling sacred objects, it has its parallel in a similar Crow bias (this volume, 13).