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Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians

by James Mooney

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Winter 1885 — 86

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.

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