One hundred summers: a Kiowa calendar record by Candace S Greene

Author:Candace S Greene [Greene, Candace S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-04-19T08:03:13+00:00

The second picture of a pipe with red bowl and wrappings is explained by Hauvahte’s calendar as a peace pipe the Kiowas gave to a Comanche named Dry Shoulder, perhaps another instance of the Pipe Dance or adoption ceremony.

1884–85 Snapping Turtle stole a woman winter

Snapping Turtle, shown here with a black handkerchief around his neck and an elaborately painted face, stole a woman this winter. George Hunt gives her name as Konma, but provides no translation; Mary Buffalo says she was the wife of Otter Tail. Her name glyph suggests something like Many Tracks. According to Mooney’s sources, her aggrieved husband whipped her and killed a number of Turtle’s hors-es. Snapping Turtle, or Tonaka, was a powerful medicine man, and his name figures in several stories of community trouble during the reservation era. Black handkerchiefs were used by medicine men in conjuring.

The second picture of a tall, emaciated woman also appears in Silver Horn’s other calendar, representing a woman who died. In both pictures she has small horns or projections on her head.

1885 Peninsula Kado

The fragmentary image on this damaged page can be recognized as the forked stream indicating the peninsula on the Washita River where dances were held in

far out on the Staked Plains in the Texas Panhandle.

1885–86 Tipis burned winter

A row of name glyphs identifies the own-ers of tipis lost in this fire. The one on the left is surely Frizzle Head, while the one on the right represents Tebodal. Hauvahte translates the name Tebodal as Calf of the Leg, corresponding well with this picture of a man’s lower leg. Mooney gives a full-er translation of the name as One Who Carries a Pack of Meat from the Buffalo’s Lower Leg. The glyph used here, while not an accurate representation of the full

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sense of the name, serves effectively as an identification.

1886 Big Bow killed a horse thief summer

This section of the calendar is missing. No Kado was held this year because the Kiowa could not locate a buffalo. The

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