. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] DOKIS BAND DOLLS 395 warrior, and died about 1894. His scalp sliirt and war-lionnet case are in the Na- tional Museum. (4) The nephew of the great Dohasiin II and cousin of the last mentioned (3) was also called Dohasiin, and always wore a silver cross with the name "Tohasan" enjiraved upon it. He was the author of the Scott calendar and died in 1892. Shortly l)efore his death he changed his name to Danpii'', 'shoul- der-blade,' from dan, 'shoulder' (?), leaving only Ankimii's husband (3) to bear the hereditary name, which is now extinct. Dohasan II,
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] DOKIS BAND DOLLS 395 warrior, and died about 1894. His scalp sliirt and war-lionnet case are in the Na- tional Museum. (4) The nephew of the great Dohasiin II and cousin of the last mentioned (3) was also called Dohasiin, and always wore a silver cross with the name "Tohasan" enjiraved upon it. He was the author of the Scott calendar and died in 1892. Shortly l)efore his death he changed his name to Danpii'', 'shoul- der-blade,' from dan, 'shoulder' (?), leaving only Ankimii's husband (3) to bear the hereditary name, which is now extinct. Dohasan II, the greatest chief in the history of the Kiowa tribe, in 1833 succeeded A'd;ite, who had been de- posed for having allowed his people to be surprised and massacred by the Osage in that year. It was chiefly through his influence that peace was made between the Kiowa and Osage after the massacre referred to, which has never been broken. In 1862, when the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa Apache were assembled on Arkansas r. to receive annuities, the agent threat- ened them with punishment if they did not cease their raids. Dohasan listened in perfect silence to the end, when he sprang to his feet, and calling the atten- tion of the agent to the hundreds of tipis in the valley below, replied in a charac- teristic speech: "The white chief is a fool. He is a coward. His heart is small—not larger than a jiebble stone. His men are not strong—too few to con- tend against my warriors. They are women. There are three chiefs—the white chief, the Spanish chief, and my- self. The Spanish chief and myself are men. We do bad toward each other sometimes—stealing horses and taking scalps—but we do not get mad and act the fool. The white chief is a child, and, like a child, gets mad quick. When my young men, to keep their women and children from starving, take from the white man passing through our country, killing and driving away our buffalo, a cup of sugar or coffee
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