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Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians

by James Mooney

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Summer 1889

This summer there was no sun dance and everybody remained at home on his farm, the fact being indicated as before on the Set-t’an calendar by means of the figure of a leafy tree above a square inclosure intended to represent a field.

Anko records a receipt of grass money, indicated by several circles intended for dollars where the medicine pole is usually shown; also the death of a son of Stumbling-bear, indicated by the figure of a man wearing an eagle feather in his hair.

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