. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. er of mounted Dakota paid a friendly visit to the Kiowa to dance and receive presents of ponies, while the Kiowa were engaged in the sun dance, which was held, like the last two preceding, on K udo Fhi or Kiowa Medicine-lodge creek. Although the Dakota had been at war with the Kiowa when the latter lived in the north, the two tribes had now been friends for a long time, so long that the old men do not remember when the peace was made. The Dakota are represented by the figure of amans bust, wear
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. er of mounted Dakota paid a friendly visit to the Kiowa to dance and receive presents of ponies, while the Kiowa were engaged in the sun dance, which was held, like the last two preceding, on K udo Fhi or Kiowa Medicine-lodge creek. Although the Dakota had been at war with the Kiowa when the latter lived in the north, the two tribes had now been friends for a long time, so long that the old men do not remember when the peace was made. The Dakota are represented by the figure of amans bust, wearing a icodalpd or necklace brace-let of long shell or bone tubes, popularly knownamong the traders as Iroquois beads. The Kiowacall the Dakota the Kodalpd-lcidgo, Necklacepeople, and say that the Dakota were the originalwearers of .such necklaces. The explanation appears to be a myth founded on a misconceptionof the tribal .sign for Dakota, which is the same as for necklace, i. e., asweeping pass of the hand across the throat, but commonly translatedbeheaders when applied to that KTH 32. 90—Snmmer 1844— Cakotu sun diince. 282 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA [ETH. ANN. 17
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