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Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians

by James Mooney

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Summer 1865

Pihó K`ádó, “Peninsula sun dance.” It is so called because held in the peninsula or bend of the Washita on the south side, a short distance below the mouth of Walnut creek (Zódăltoñ P’a, “Vomiting-water river”) within the present reservation. The Set-t’an calendar represents the medicine lodge in the bend, indicated by a curved line. In the Anko calendar the peninsula is more rudely indicated by a circle around the base of the medicine pole.

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