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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/36224-0.txt b/36224-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..349485f --- /dev/null +++ b/36224-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1408 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance, by Leslie Spier + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance + +Author: Leslie Spier + +Release Date: May 28, 2011 [EBook #36224] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS + OF + THE AMERICAN MUSEUM + OF NATURAL HISTORY + + VOL. XVI, PART VI + + + NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE + BY + LESLIE SPIER + + + NEW YORK + PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES + 1921 + + + + + NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE. + + BY LESLIE SPIER. + + + + + ILLUSTRATIONS. + TEXT FIGURES. + + PAGE. + 1. Groundplan of Dance Lodge 441 + + + + +NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE. + + +The following notes were obtained from Andres Martinez (Andele, a +Mexican captive of the Kiowa whose history[1] is well known) in August, +1919. Attention was directed in the first instance to the organization +of the dance, but a brief description of the whole ceremony was also +obtained, chiefly by way of comments on Scott's account.[2] The last +Kiowa sun dance was held in 1887.[3] + +The Kiowa sun dance is the prerogative of the individual who owns the +sacred image, the _tai´me_. He deputes the ancillary offices where he +sees fit, although there is a well-defined tendency for them to be +hereditary. The predominant idea of this image is that of a war +medicine. Thus the dance is fundamentally like that of the Crow, but it +differs from it in two important respects. First, the Kiowa rites +cluster about only one particular medicine, whereas among the Crow, any +one of a number of medicine dolls may be used in the ceremony. The +question arises whether the dozen minor Kiowa images, which are +sometimes brought into the dance, were more recently acquired or +constructed in order to reproduce the functions of the _tai´me_, or +whether one medicine doll has completely overshadowed all the others, as +seemed about to happen among the Crow. The evidence favors the first +view, since no rites, other than those attendant on any personal +medicine, are described, or even intimated, for the minor images. The +second difference is, that while the Crow shaman invokes his medicine +for any one who appeals to him for aid, acting only in a directive +capacity, the Kiowa _tai´me_ owner is himself the principal suppliant. +Were it not for the hereditary bias in the distribution of ceremonial +functions, the Kiowa sun dance would be the prerogative of one man as +completely as that of the Crow is, when the latter is once under way. +The hereditary principle does not appear in the military societies +except in the ownership of the medicine lance or arrow (_zë´bo_).[4] + +The Kiowa sun dance (_k'oθdun_ specifically the name for the lodge) was +an annual tribal affair, in which the associated Kiowa Apache freely +joined.[5] It was danced in an effort to obtain material benefits from, +or through, the medicine doll in the possession of the medicineman, who +is at the same time director and principal performer. + + This is a small image, less than 2 feet in length, representing a + human figure dressed in a robe of white feathers, with a headdress + consisting of a single upright feather and pendants of ermine skin, + with numerous strands of blue beads around its neck, and painted + upon the face, breast, and back with designs symbolic of the sun and + moon. [Martinez says the face is entirely obscured by hanging + beads.] The image itself is of dark-green stone, in form rudely + resembling a human head and bust, probably shaped by art like the + stone fetishes of the Pueblo tribes. It is preserved in a rawhide + box in charge of the hereditary keeper, and is never under any + circumstances exposed to view except at the annual sun dance, when + it is fastened to a short upright stick planted within the medicine + lodge, near the western side.... The ancient _tai´me_ image was of + buckskin, with a stalk of Indian tobacco for a headdress. This + buckskin image was left in the medicine lodge, with all the other + adornments and sacrificial offerings, at the close of each ceremony. + The present _tai´me_ is one of three, two of which came originally + from the Crows, through an Arapaho who married into the Kiowa tribe, + while the third came by capture from the Blackfeet.[6] + +The bundle containing the image is usually hung outside of its keeper's +tipi. It is not customary to expose the image except at the sun dance, +but tobacco is placed with it from time to time. Its function outside of +the dance is identical with its use there: those who need its aid make +vows to it, which they fulfil by sacrificing horses, etc., and making +sweatlodges. The image is the property of one man, or more properly of +his family, since it may be inherited by his blood relatives. If the +transfer is made before the father's death, payment and a sweatlodge +must be given by the son.[7] After Long Foot died about 1870, as he had +no son, it passed into the possession of three of his nephews in +succession, and reverted in 1894 to his daughter who still has it.[8] +While she may handle the image, she would not be permitted to enter the +dance with it.[9] There the functions which would normally devolve on +her would be performed in their entirety by a captive. This captive has +been trained to the position in order to take the place of the image +keeper should he be sick. A captive is chosen for the substitute so that +a calamity incurred by a mischance in the proceedings may fall on him +alone and not on the Kiowa. The erstwhile substitute, a Mexican, is +still living. The image keeper, like his four associates, must not look +in a mirror, nor touch a skunk or jackrabbit. One who touches these +animals cannot enter the tipi where the doll is housed until four days +have elapsed. No dog is allowed in this tipi, nor is one permitted to +jump over the keeper or his four associates, the _g.uoÅ‚g.uȧt`_. + +There are ten or twelve minor images (_tailyúkȧ_) which strongly +resemble the _tai´me_ in function, as they are essentially war +medicines. Most of them were in the keeping of men other than the sacred +doll owner, but two were kept by him for a time.[10] They have little or +no part in the sun dance. + + The _GadômbÃtsoñhi_, "Old-woman-under-the-ground," belonged to the + Kiñep band of the Kiowa. It was a small image, less than a foot + high, representing a woman with flowing hair. It was exposed in + front of the _tai´me_ at the great sun-dance ceremony, and by some + unexplained jugglery the priest in charge of it caused it to rise + out of the ground, dance in the sight of the people, and then again + sink into the earth.[11] + +The sun dance was normally an annual ceremony, but sometimes a year +passed without one. The dance was theoretically dependent on someone +going to the keeper and saying, "I dreamed of it (_i.e._, the sun +dance)," or on the keeper himself dreaming of it. On two occasions a +second dance was held in the dance lodge after the keeper had removed +the sacred doll at the close of the first dance, because a second man +had also dreamed of it.[12] After the dream is announced the keeper +hangs the image on his back and rides out to all the camps, announcing, +as he circles them, that he will conduct the ceremony the following +spring (May or June). This announcement was sometimes made immediately +after the close of the preceding dance, but usually it came just before +they intended to hold the dance.[13] The keeper fasts while he is making +the announcement, even if it takes three days, as may happen when the +camps were scattered. When they know the dance is to be held, others vow +to dance for a specified number of days, and all gather near the dance +ground. No one may absent himself: they are all afraid of his medicine. +When the tribe is assembled, the keeper circles the camp, again bearing +the sacred doll on his back. + +Two young men are selected by the keeper from one of the military +societies[14] to scout for a tree to serve as center pole for the dance +lodge. While searching, they must refrain from drinking. About this time +all those intending to dance are building sweatlodges to purify +themselves: the keeper must enter each of these to direct the +proceedings; this entails considerable work on him. Should he be sick at +this time, the doll is carried into the sweatlodge by the captive in his +stead. It is incumbent on the _tai´me_ shield owners to accompany this +captive and help him perform the necessary ceremonies. When the tree for +the center pole has been selected, the whole camp moves after the keeper +and his family to the dance ground. A dozen or more old men follow +immediately after him. The main body is guarded front, rear, and both +flanks by the military societies, as is customary when a camp moves.[15] +The procession halts four times on its journey while the keeper smokes +and prays. Next, the soldier societies charge on the dance ground, +or rather on a pole erected there before the camp circle is +established,[16] according to Methvin (p. 64), but on the newly +established camp itself according to Scott's informants (p. 357). + +The next morning the man who has that privilege sets out with his wife +to get the hide of a young buffalo bull. When such a person dies, the +keeper appoints one of his kin to take his place.[17] The couple must +fast while on this hunt. If the buffalo is killed with a single arrow, +it is a favorable omen, if many are needed, the opposite is indicated. +The buffalo must be killed so that he falls on his belly with his head +toward the east. A broad strip of back skin, with the tail and head skin +attached is carried to the keeper's tipi, where feathers are tied to its +head.[18] + +The next morning they set out to fetch the center pole. Scott describes +a parade around the camp circle by the military societies which then +proceed to charge the tree selected for the center pole, which is +defended in sham combat by one of the men's societies[19] (_akiaik`to_, +war with the trees). After the chiefs have recited their coups, and +prayers have been said by the sacred doll keeper and his wife, who have +brought the doll there, the tree is chopped down by a captive Mexican +woman. A captive is always selected for this difficult task, so that any +harm due to an error on her part may not fall on a tribesman. This +function is always performed by a Mexican woman: when she dies, the +keeper appoints her successor. As the tree falls, they shout and shoot +in the air. The pole is carried to the dance ground by a society +designated by the keeper,[20] where a hole to receive it has been dug by +a men's military society.[21] The pole is set upright by a single +medicineman who owns this privilege. The buffalo hide is then fastened +across the forks with its head to the east and offerings of cloth, etc., +brought by various individuals are tied to it. In 1873 Battey +observed:-- + + The central post is ornamented near the ground with the robes of + buffalo calves, their heads up, as if in the act of climbing it; + each of the branches above the fork is ornamented in a similar + manner, with the addition of shawls, calico, scarfs, &c., and + covered at the top with black muslin. Attached to the fork is a + bundle of cottonwood and willow limbs, firmly bound together, and + covered with a buffalo robe, with head and horns, so as to form a + rude image of a buffalo, to which were hung strips of new calico, + muslin, strouding, both blue and scarlet, feathers, shawls, &c., of + various lengths and qualities. The longer and more showy articles + were placed near the ends. This image was so placed as to face the + east.[22] + +The center pole is not painted. + +After the center pole is in place, everyone, but especially the military +societies, assists in building the enclosing structure. The lodge is +like those of the Arapaho and Cheyenne: it is circular, the rafters rest +on the center pole, and the covering of boughs extends a third of the +way to the center of the roof. An entrance is left on the east side. A +flat stone is placed here so that every dancer passing through must set +his foot on it. Wet sand is spread over the ground in the dance +lodge[23] and heaped around the base of the center pole. Two little +round holes, walled in with mud, are dug near the rear of the lodge to +hold incense smudges. A screen of cottonwood and cedar branches is +constructed just north of these. + + This business continued through the day, except for an hour or two + in the middle of the afternoon, when the old women[24]--the + grandmothers of the tribe--had a dance. The music consisted of + singing and drumming, done by several old women, who were squatted + on the ground in a circle. The dancers--old, gray-headed women, from + sixty to eighty years of age--performed in a circle around them for + some time, finally striking off upon a waddling run, one behind + another; they formed a circle, came back and, doubling so as to + bring two together, threw their arms around each other's necks, and + trudged around for some time longer; then sat down, while a youngish + man circulated the pipe, from which each in turn took two or three + whiffs, and this ceremony ended.[25] + + [When the dance lodge was completed] the soldiers of the tribe then + had a frolic in and about it, running and jumping, striking and + kicking, throwing one another down, stripping and tearing the + clothes off each other.[26]... Before this frolic was over, a party + of ten or twelve warriors appeared, moving a kind of shield to and + fro before their bodies, making, in some manner (as I was not near + enough to see how it was done), a grating sound, not unlike the + filing of a mill-saw.[27] + + In the afternoon, a party of a dozen or more warriors and braves + proceeded to the medicine house, followed by a large proportion of + the people of the encampment. They were highly painted, and wore + shirts only, with head-dresses of feathers which extended down the + backs to the ground, and were kept in their proper places by means + of an ornamented strap clasping the waist. Some of them had long + horns attached to their head-dresses. They were armed with lances + and revolvers, and carrying a couple of long poles mounted from end + to end with feathers, the one white and the other black. They also + bore shields highly ornamented with paint, feathers, and hair. + + They took their station upon the side opposite the entrance, the + musicians standing behind them. + + Many old women occupied a position to the right and near the + entrance, who set up a tremulous shrieking; the drums began to beat, + and the dance began, the party above described only participating in + it. + + They at first slowly advanced towards the central post, followed by + the musicians several of whom carried a side of raw hide (dried), + which was beaten upon with sticks, making about as much music as to + beat upon the sole of an old shoe, while the drums, the voices of + the women, and the rattling of pebbles in instruments of raw hide + filled out the choir. + + After slowly advancing nearly to the central post, they retired + backward, again advanced, a little farther than before; this was + repeated several times, each time advancing a little farther, until + they crowded upon the spectators, drew their revolvers, and + discharged them into the air. + + Soon after, the women rushed forward with a shrieking yell, threw + their blankets violently upon the ground, at the feet of the + retiring dancers, snatched them up with the same tremulous shriek + that had been before produced, and retired; which closed this part + of the entertainment. The ornamented shields used on this occasion + were afterwards hung up with the medicine.[28] + +These may be the shields which are associated with the _tai´me_. Later, +after the sacred doll has been brought into the lodge, they are either +hung with it on the cedar screen as Battey observed,[29] or on stakes +set up outside the dance lodge to the west, i.e., behind the image, +where Martinez saw them. No offerings are made to them there. It is +incumbent on a _tai´me_ shield owner to dance with the associates +(_g.uoÅ‚g.uȧt`_) in every sun dance so long as he continues to own the +shield. He is not considered one of the associates however. Shield +owners always help the image keeper when he asks their aid. They must +also assist his captive substitute when officiating in a sweatlodge. A +shield owner cannot sell his shield, but he may give it to his son in +anticipation of his death, receiving presents in return. Otherwise, on +the death of its owner the shield is placed on his grave. Should a son +or nephew dream of it, he has the right to make a duplicate with the +help of the doll owner in order to keep it in the family. However, if +any other man dreams of it and wants to make the duplicate, he must pay +the owner.[30] The shield is usually hung outside of its owner's tipi. +The shield owners "must not eat buffalo hearts, or touch a bearskin, or +have anything to do with a bear." Like the associates, "they must not +smoke with their moccasins on,[31] or kill, or eat any kind of rabbit, +or kill or touch a skunk."[32] These shields are used only in war as +their owner's personal medicine: no offerings are ever made to them. + +Late in the day, a number of men who have vowed to take part in the +subsequent dance, together with one woman who has the privilege,[33] are +garbed in buffalo robes to represent the living animals. They gather to +the east of the lodge where they simulate the actions of a herd of +buffalo. A man, called a scout, starts from the entrance of the lodge +with a firebrand and circles about the herd until he meets a second man, +mounted and carrying a shield and a straight pipe, who thereupon drives +the buffalo toward the dance lodge, which they circle several times +before negotiating the entrance. Once inside they lie down; the man with +the pipe dismounts and enters. Picking up the hairs on the back of first +one animal and another, he says, "This is the fattest animal. He is our +protector in war." Then he recites a coup. This designated (or makes ?) +a brave man of that buffalo.[34] Both the man with the firebrand and he +with the pipe ought to be medicinemen. The present incumbent of the +first office also has the privilege of erecting the center pole. When +these men die, the sacred doll keeper selects successors from their +families.[35] + +That evening after sunset the dance proper begins, to last four nights +and days, ending in the evening. The doll keeper proceeds to his own +tipi, where, with the assistance of seven other medicinemen (_tai´me_ +shield keepers and some others not otherwise connected with the +ceremony), he unwraps the _tai´me_. Carrying it on his back, he walks to +the dance lodge, and, completely circles it four times, feigning to +enter each time he passes the entrance. After entering, he goes around +by the south side to the northwest quadrant, where he plants the image +hanging on a staff. Formerly two or more of the minor images, +_tailyúkȧ_, were placed with the _tai´me_. After the image is in place +the dancers enter to perform for the night. + +The keeper dances throughout the whole four-day period. He is painted +yellow, with a design representing the sun, and sometimes another for +the moon, drawn on his chest and back. "His face was painted, like that +of the Taimay itself, with red and black zigzag lines downward from the +eyes." He wears a yellow buckskin kilt, a jackrabbit skin cap with down +attached, and sage wristlets. He is barefoot. He carries a bunch of +cedar in his hand, and an eagle bone whistle from which an eagle feather +is pendent. Battey observed that he was painted white at the +"buffalo-herding" rite, and not painted at all in the dance proper.[36] + +Beside the _tai´me_ keeper there are three classes of persons who dance; +the associates (_g.uoÅ‚g.uȧt`_), the _tai´me_ shield keepers, and the +common dancers. The four associates (Scott's "keeper's assistants") must +dance throughout the whole four day period. They appear in four +successive dances (normally four years), after which they choose +successors from among those young men, eighteen to thirty years old, who +have made the best records in war. These young men, with the assistance +of their relatives,[37] pay horses and buffalo robes for the privilege, +receiving the regalia in return.[38] One who is chosen cannot refuse: if +he does, he may expect a calamity. The associate may belong to any of +the military societies. His office does not impose obligations of +foolhardiness in war (such as the no-flight idea), but he is obliged to +act the part of an intrepid warrior, because he enjoys security in +battle.[39] The associate must not look in a mirror lest he become +blind,[40] nor can he touch a skunk or jackrabbit, nor remain near a +fire where someone is cooking. Dogs must not be permitted to jump over +an associate. He must remove his moccasins before he smokes, but others +may keep theirs on when smoking in his presence. The associate dances in +order to live long and to be a great warrior. His body is painted white +or yellow: a round spot representing the sun is painted on the middle of +his chest, with a crescent moon (the concavity upward) on both sides of +the sun, and the same decoration is repeated on his back. The skin is +cut away as a sacrifice and to make these designs permanent after his +first dance. A scalp from a _tai´me_ shield hangs on his breast with two +eagle feathers; another on his back. His face is "ornamented with a +green stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of the +cheeks, to the corners of the mouth, and meeting on the chin."[41] He +wears a yellow buckskin kilt, with his breechclout hung outside, like +the Arapaho and Cheyenne sun dancers. Bunches of sage are stuck into his +belt, others tied around his wrists and ankles, and carried in each +hand. On his head is either a cap of jackrabbitskin in which is stuck an +eagle feather or a sage wreath with down attached. He carries a bone +whistle. Like the sacred doll keeper and all other dancers, he is +barefoot.[42] Battey saw three associates purify themselves in the +incense from the censors, and then dance on piles of sage.[43] + +The _tai´me_ shield owners, who dance with the associates are sometimes +painted yellow or green with pictures of the sun and moon on their +bodies, but otherwise they wear the regalia of the common dancers. + +The rank and file of the dancers are men, never women. Anyone may vow to +dance a certain number of days, with the object of becoming a better +warrior and living long. + + They believe that it warded off sickness, caused happiness, + prosperity, many children, success in war, and plenty of buffalo for + all the people. It was frequently vowed by persons in danger from + sickness or the enemy.[44] + +Sometimes a medicineman danced to intercede for a sick man. A sick man +who had vowed to attend the dance in order to be cured would be carried +into the dance lodge, but he would not dance. These dancers make +offerings to the _tai´me_. They do not pay the doll keeper in order to +enter the dance, and they have no rights in any subsequent performance +by reason of having once participated. Like all other dancers they must +fast and go without water during the period that they dance; they can +however, smoke, provided the proper rites are observed. + + ... The pipe was filled, brought forward, and laid upon the ground; + the person, carefully turning the stem towards the fire, and bedding + it in the sand, so that the bowl should remain in an upright + position, arose and stood with his back towards it, or facing the + medicine. It was then approached by one of the musicians, who, in a + squatting position, raised his hand reverently towards the sun, the + medicine, the top of the central post, or buffalo; then, passing his + hands slowly over the pipe, took it up with his left hand, and + taking a pinch from the bowl with the thumb and fore finger of the + right, held it to the sun, the medicine, the top of the central + post, then the bottom, and finally covered it up in the ground. He + then proceeded to light the pipe, blowing a whiff of smoke towards + the several objects of adoration, and placed it carefully where he + found it, in reversed order, that is, with the stem from the fire. + The person who brought it had stood waiting all this time for it. He + now took it up and retired to the dancers, who, wrapped in buffalo + robes, were waiting, in a squatting position, to receive it. The + sand where the pipe had lain was carefully smoothed by the hand, and + all marks of it wholly obliterated.[45] + +These dancers are painted white; they wear white buckskin kilts, with +the breechclout outside, carry bone whistles, and are barefoot. They +have no headdress, wrist or ankle ornaments. They paint themselves.[46] +There is only one style of paint used by either the principal or the +common dancers throughout the sun dance. + +The dancers form a line on the east side of the lodge facing the image. +Their step is that characteristic of the sun dance of other tribes: they +stand in place, alternately bending their knees and rising on their +toes. They dance intermittently throughout four days and nights; the +common dancers leave as the periods for which they have vowed to dance +have elapsed or when they can no longer stand the combined strain of +fasting, thirsting, and dancing. Martinez left after three days and +nights. The "four days and nights" which are specified are in reality +only three nights and days; evidently the first day of preliminary +dancing is included to fill out the quota to the magic "four." In +Scott's account, the dancers perform on the first day from evening to +the middle of the night, and on the succeeding days from sunrise to the +chorus's breakfast, nine o'clock to dinner, four in the afternoon to +sundown, and from evening to midnight, ending in the evening of the +fourth day. The dance Battey describes evidently began in the evening of +the 18th and continued intermittently to late afternoon of the 21st. +Apparently the dancers do not leave the lodge during this entire period. + + _19th_ [June, 1873.]--Music and dancing continued in the medicine + house through the night. At an early hour this morning I went + thither with Couguet, and witnessed one dance throughout. The ground + inside the enclosure had been carefully cleared of grass, sticks, + and roots, and covered, several inches deep, with a clean, white + sand. A screen had been constructed on the side opposite the + entrance, by sticking small cottonwoods and cedars deep into the + ground, so as to preserve them fresh as long as possible. A space + was left, two or three feet wide, between it and the enclosing wall, + in which the dancers prepared themselves for the dance, and in front + of which was the medicine. This consisted of an image, lying on the + ground, but so concealed from view, in the screen, as to render its + form indistinguishable; above it was a large fan, made of eagle + quills, [an error, these are crow feathers], with the quill part + lengthened out nearly a foot, by inserting a stick into it, and + securing it there. These were held in a spread form by means of a + willow rod, or wire, bent in a circular form; above this was a mass + of feathers, concealing an image, on each side of which were several + shields, highly decorated with feathers and paint. Various other + paraphernalia of heathen worship were suspended in the screen, among + these shields or over them, impossible for me to describe so as to + be comprehended. A mound had also been thrown up around the central + post of the building, two feet high, and perhaps five feet in + diameter. + + The musicians, who, if I mistake not, are the war chiefs, were + squatted on the ground, in true heathen style, to the left, and near + the entrance, having Indian drums and rattles. The music was + sounding when we entered. + + Presently the dancers came from behind the screen; their faces, + arms, and the upper part of their bodies were painted white; a soft, + white buckskin skirt, secured about the loins, descended nearly to + the ankles, while the breech-cloth,--blue on this occasion,--hanging + to the ground, outside the skirt, both in front and behind, + completed the dress. They faced the medicine--shall I say idols? for + it was conducted with all the solemnity of worship,--jumping up and + down in true time with the beating of the drums, while a bone + whistle in their mouths, through which the breath escaped as they + jumped about, and the singing of the women, completed the music. The + dancers continued to face the medicine, with arms stretched upwards + and towards it,--their eyes as it were riveted to it. They were + apparently oblivious to all surroundings, except the music and what + was before them. + + After some time, a middle-aged man, painted as the others, but + wearing a buffalo robe, issued from behind the screen, facing + the entrance, but having his eyes fixed upon the sun, upon + which he stood gazing, without winking or moving a muscle, + for some time, then began slowly to incline his head from side + to side, as if to avoid some obstruction in his view of it, + swaying his body slightly, then, stepping slowly from side to + side--forward--backward--increasing his motions, both in rapidity + and extent, until in appearance nearly frantic, his robes fell off, + leaving him--except his blue breechclout--entirely naked. In this + condition he jumped and ran about the enclosure,--head, arms, + and legs all equally participating in the violence of his + gestures,--every joint of his body apparently loosened, his eyes + only fixed. I wondered how, with every joint apparently dislocated, + and every muscular fibre relaxed, he could maintain the upright + position. + + Thus he continued to exercise without ceasing, or once removing his + eyes from the sun, until the sweat ran down in great rolling drops, + washing the white paint into streaks no more ornamental than the + original painting, and he was at length compelled to retire, from + mere exhaustion, the other dancers still continuing their exercises. + + Presently another man [the _tai´me_ keeper] entered from behind the + screen, wearing an Indian fur cap and a blue breechcloth reaching to + the ground. He was unpainted, and had a human scalp fastened to his + scalplock, the soft, flowing hair of which, spreading out upon his + naked back, bore mute testimony to the tragical death of some + unfortunate white woman. This man, with a kind of half running jump, + still in step with the music, went around all the dancers, who did + not notice him, with one arm stretched out over his heads, first in + one direction, then the other, turning his course at every time, + after stopping in front of the medicine, and making some + indescribable motions before it. He sometimes parted the feathers + concealing the small image, appearing to examine it minutely, as if + searching for something, and sometimes putting his lips to it, as if + in the act of kissing it. [He takes some medicine root into his + mouth, chews it and blows it on the dancers.][47] At length, after + repeated examinations, he, apparently for the first time, discovered + the fan, and took hold of it hesitatingly, and as if afraid. + + This was loosed from its fastenings by a hand behind the screen, and + he slowly raised it up, looking intently at it, while the expression + of his countenance indicated a fearfulness of the result of handling + an object whose hidden and mysterious powers were so far beyond his + comprehension. He held it up before the medicine, waved it up and + down, and from side to side, then, turning round so as to face the + dancers and spectators, waved it from side to side near the ground, + once around the dancers; then, raising it above his head, he waved + it in the same manner, performing another circle around the dancers. + + Then, with gestures of striking, and a countenance scowling as with + fierce rage, he began to chase them around and around the ring, + [i.e., around the center pole] from left to right. Finally, getting + one of them separated from the rest, he pursued him with the most + fiend-like attitude, fiercely striking at him with his fan. The + pursued one fled from him with a countenance expressive of almost + death-like terror, until, after several rounds, he stumbled and fell + heavily to the ground. Another and another were thus separated from + the dancers, pursued, and fell before the mystical power of the fan, + and the act closed.[48] + +The "feather-killing" (_staiÄ•nkiăł_, he runs after them with feathers) +occurs every day in the late forenoon.[49] The associates as well as the +other dancers, are fanned into unconsciousness.[50] In such a condition +they would try to get visions: they would rise, call for a pipe, and +announce what they had seen.[51] + + Being called to a council of the war chiefs, I went no more to the + medicine house to-day, though the music and dancing continued the + whole time, by day and by night, with short intervals between the + different acts, to give opportunity for rest, arranging dress, + painting, and such other changes as the programme of the ceremony + demanded. + + _20th._--Saw but one dance to-day. Quite a quantity of goods, such + as blankets, strouding (blue and scarlet list-cloth), calico, + shawls, scarfs, and other Indian wares, had been carried into the + medicine house previous to my entrance. The dancers had been painted + white, three of them [the _g.uolg.uȧt`_] ornamented with a green + stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of the cheeks, + to the corner of the mouth, and meeting on the chin. A round green + spot was painted on the back and breast, about three inches in + diameter, while on either side of it, and somewhat elevated above + it, was a crescent of the same size and color. Two small, hollow + mounds of sand and clay had been made before the medicine, in which + fire was placed, and kept just sufficiently burning, with the + partially dried cottonwood leaves, cedar twigs, and probably + tobacco, to produce a smoke. A small fire was burning near the + musicians, for lighting pipes, tightening drums, &c. + + When all was ready, the three young men, who were painted as + described, were led, each by a man clad in a buffalo robe [possibly + the former _g.uolg.uȧt`_ who were transferring their privileges], + near to the smoking mounds in front of the medicine. An ornamented + fur cap was, with some ceremony, placed upon the head of one of + them; wisps of green wild wormwood were fastened to the wrists and + ankles, which being done, he reverently raised his hands above his + head, leaning forward over one of the mounds, brought them down + nearly to it; then, straightening up, passed his hands over his face + and stroked his breast. This was repeated several times; then, after + holding one foot, and the other, over the mound, as if to warm them, + two or three times, he went around the central post, and back to the + other mound, where the same ceremony was repeated. During this whole + ceremony I could perceive that his lips moved, though he uttered + nothing. I afterwards learned that it was in prayer to this effect: + "May this medicine render me brave in war, proof against the weapons + of my enemies, strong in the chase, wise in council; and, finally, + may it preserve me to a good age, and may I at last die in peace + among my own people." The others, one at a time, were similarly + brought forward, and went through with the same ceremony. Three + bunches of wild wormwood were then placed on the ground in a row, + crossing the line of entrance, and between it and the central post, + upon which the three young men were placed by their attendants, who + stood behind them, with their hands upon their shoulders, the music + playing all the time. Two or three men then approached the pile of + goods, selected therefrom some plaid shawls, strouding, blankets, + scarfs, and an umbrella, and hung them over the medicine; this being + done, the six men began to dance,--the three foremost ones upon the + wormwood, with their arms stretched towards the medicine, the three + others with their hands still resting upon the shoulders of the + former. After some time the latter retired; the other dancers came + from behind the screen, and joined in the dance, which continued + until they were driven off by the medicine chief, as described in + yesterday's dance. All these ceremonies had a sacred significance, + which I did not understand, but have been informed that they believe + any article of wearing apparel, or of harness for their horses, hung + up by the medicine during these ceremonies, receives a charmed power + to protect their wearers from disease, or the assaults of their + enemies, during the year. + + _21st._--At one of the dances to-day, all but one retired behind the + screen, who continued to dance by himself for a long time. Various + articles were brought forward, and laid upon the ground, which he + took up and hung in proximity to the medicine. After along time, the + other dancers reappeared, and he retired; these continued their + exercises, until driven off as before. The last dance differed from + the preceding in this: the last man selected and separated from the + others by the medicine chief to be driven off, though he ran from + him, did not appear terrified, and would not fall down, but retired, + with the medicine chief, behind the screen. + + At one of the dances to-day, five human scalps were exhibited,--one + attached to each of the right wrists of two men, and one to each + wrist of another, besides the one worn attached to the scalp lock of + the medicine chief. Two of these scalps were from the heads of + Indians. They had all been tanned, and evidently belonged with the + medicine fixtures. + + The whole ceremony closed about four o'clock in the afternoon. The + medicine was packed away by the medicine chief, and the several + articles which had been hung about it--medicated, I suppose, or, in + other words, sanctified by proximity to the sacred things during + the ceremonies, and consequently having power to protect their + possessors from evil--were restored to the proper owners. They then + packed them, took them upon their backs, formed into a procession, + and marched, to the music of the drums, around and out of the + medicine house, whence every one took the direction of his or her + own lodge, and the ceremonies of the great medicine were ended.[52] + +At the end of the ceremony, the image keeper chews up some medicine root +and prepares a drink, of which the dancers are permitted to imbibe a +little.[53] + +After the image has been removed, old clothing is hung on the center +pole as a sacrifice. Once Martinez saw a horse tied to the center pole +as a sacrifice to the sun. It remained there until it starved to death. +Horses were also painted and placed, together with blankets and similar +valuables, on high hills as sacrifices. Others beside the associates +sacrificed their flesh to the sun at this time, or in fact, whenever +they wanted to, as Martinez has done. The Kiowa never suspended their +dancers, as in the self-torture dance of other tribes, neither in the +sun dance, nor when an individual sought a vision while fasting alone in +the mountains. + +The night the dance closes everyone joins in a hilarious time in the +dance lodge. 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H., "Societies of the Kiowa" (this series, vol. 11), 847; +Mooney, 325, 338. + +[5] Mooney, 253, states the contrary. + +[6] Mooney, 240; Plate LXIX shows a model (see Scott, 349). + +[7] This coupling of purchase with inheritance is strictly comparable to +the Hidatsa bundle (this volume, 416-417). + +[8] Scott, 369, 373. + +[9] If this is more than a general taboo against women handling sacred +objects, it has its parallel in a similar Crow bias (this volume, 13). + +[10] Mooney, 241, 323, 324. + +[11] Mooney, 239. + +[12] Mooney, 279, 343. + +[13] Lowie, 842. + +[14] Lowie, 843. + +[15] Compare, Battey, Thomas C., _The Life and Adventures of a Quaker +among the Indians_ (Boston, 1876) 185. + +[16] The Southern Cheyenne also charge and count coup on some sticks +marking the site of the dance lodge (G. A. Dorsey, _Cheyenne Sun +Dance_). + +[17] Cf. 83, 109. Mooney, 349. + +[18] Scott, 358-360, 365. In this account the hide is taken into a +sweatlodge at this juncture. + +[19] "Foot-soldiers," Scott, 360-361. + +[20] Lowie, 843. + +[21] Not by a woman's society as Scott's informant states (361). + +[22] Battey, 170. + +[23] By the "old women soldiers" according to Scott (361), but Martinez +informs me that, with the exception of the dance described by Battey, +the two women's societies have no significant part in the sun dance. + +[24] The Old Woman society (Lowie, 850). + +[25] Battey, 168. + +[26] Cf. Lowie, 843. + +[27] Battey, 169. + +[28] Battey, 170-172. War singing _gwudaÅ„ke_, was customary before an +expedition set out for war (Lowie, 850). + +[29] Scott, Pl. XXV. + +[30] Evidently a shield of this type was made by Koñate, who was +instructed to do so by the _tai´me_ which appeared to him as he lay +wounded (Mooney, 304). + +[31] Lewis notes this custom for the Shoshoni, and Lowie for their +medicinemen when treating the sick (Lowie, Northern Shoshone, 213-214). +The Crow do not smoke where their moccasins are hung up, according to +Maximilian, (Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis +1834 [Coblenz, 1841], I, 400). + +[32] Scott, 373. + +[33] Scott, 362. + +[34] Martinez puts this performance after the image has been brought +into the dance lodge: this does not seem correct. + +[35] Battey has the keeper signal to the herd with a firebrand. Neither +Battey nor Scott mention a mounted herder; the former puts the pipe in +the hands of the keeper, and the latter in those of a third man who +remains in the dance lodge, but in Scott's account also the function of +the pipe is to force the buffalo to enter the lodge. In Battey's account +two men assist the keeper in designating warriors, and in Scott's three +men with straight pipes do it. (Battey, 172-173; Scott, 362-364). + +[36] Battey, 173, 176; Scott, 351-352, 367, Pl. XXII; Methvin, 66, notes +that his feet are painted black with sage wreaths about his ankles. + +[37] Lowie, 843. + +[38] Martinez, in Methvin's account, (71), states that the payment is +made in four successive years. + +[39] Methvin, 71; Scott, 352, states that these men directed the sun +dance as substitutes for the keeper and did the ceremonial painting, but +this is contrary to my information. + +[40] Compare Mooney, 296. + +[41] Battey, 178. + +[42] Compare Scott, 352, 368, Pls. XVIII, XXII; Methvin, 70-71. + +[43] Battey, 178-179. + +[44] Scott, 347. + +[45] Battey, 181-182. + +[46] Mooney, 302, notes that one of these individuals carried his +personal medicine in the dance. + +[47] Methvin, 66; Scott, 366. + +[48] Battey, 173-177. + +[49] Once, not three times a day as Scott states (366). + +[50] Scott, 366, places raven fans in hands of the associates. + +[51] In the ghost dance a shaman hypnotizes the dancers by waving a +feather or scarf before their faces. The subject staggers into the ring +and falls (Mooney, _Ghost dance_, 925-926). This performance may not be +related to that of the Kiowa, since it appeared among the Sioux before +the southern Plains tribes took up the ghost dance. On the other hand, +the Paiute, from whom the ghost dance was derived, did not hypnotize. + +[52] Battey, 177-181. + +[53] Scott, 365, 367. + +[54] Mooney, _Kiowa Calendar History_, 282, 297, 304, 321, 322. Another +suggestive similarity to the Crow is the assumption of "no-flight" +obligations in both tribes at the sun dance (_Ibid._, 284, 287, 320). + + + + +Transcriber's note: On page 443, 'the the' changed to 'the' (Once inside +they lie down; the man with the pipe ...) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance, by Leslie Spier + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + +***** This file should be named 36224-0.txt or 36224-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/2/2/36224/ + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance + +Author: Leslie Spier + +Release Date: May 28, 2011 [EBook #36224] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS + OF + THE AMERICAN MUSEUM + OF NATURAL HISTORY + + VOL. XVI, PART VI + + + NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE + BY + LESLIE SPIER + + + NEW YORK + PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES + 1921 + + + + + NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE. + + BY LESLIE SPIER. + + + + + ILLUSTRATIONS. + TEXT FIGURES. + + PAGE. + 1. Groundplan of Dance Lodge 441 + + + + +NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE. + + +The following notes were obtained from Andres Martinez (Andele, a +Mexican captive of the Kiowa whose history[1] is well known) in August, +1919. Attention was directed in the first instance to the organization +of the dance, but a brief description of the whole ceremony was also +obtained, chiefly by way of comments on Scott's account.[2] The last +Kiowa sun dance was held in 1887.[3] + +The Kiowa sun dance is the prerogative of the individual who owns the +sacred image, the _tai´me_. He deputes the ancillary offices where he +sees fit, although there is a well-defined tendency for them to be +hereditary. The predominant idea of this image is that of a war +medicine. Thus the dance is fundamentally like that of the Crow, but it +differs from it in two important respects. First, the Kiowa rites +cluster about only one particular medicine, whereas among the Crow, any +one of a number of medicine dolls may be used in the ceremony. The +question arises whether the dozen minor Kiowa images, which are +sometimes brought into the dance, were more recently acquired or +constructed in order to reproduce the functions of the _tai´me_, or +whether one medicine doll has completely overshadowed all the others, as +seemed about to happen among the Crow. The evidence favors the first +view, since no rites, other than those attendant on any personal +medicine, are described, or even intimated, for the minor images. The +second difference is, that while the Crow shaman invokes his medicine +for any one who appeals to him for aid, acting only in a directive +capacity, the Kiowa _tai´me_ owner is himself the principal suppliant. +Were it not for the hereditary bias in the distribution of ceremonial +functions, the Kiowa sun dance would be the prerogative of one man as +completely as that of the Crow is, when the latter is once under way. +The hereditary principle does not appear in the military societies +except in the ownership of the medicine lance or arrow (_zë´bo_).[4] + +The Kiowa sun dance (_k'o{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}dun_ specifically the name for the lodge) was +an annual tribal affair, in which the associated Kiowa Apache freely +joined.[5] It was danced in an effort to obtain material benefits from, +or through, the medicine doll in the possession of the medicineman, who +is at the same time director and principal performer. + + This is a small image, less than 2 feet in length, representing a + human figure dressed in a robe of white feathers, with a headdress + consisting of a single upright feather and pendants of ermine skin, + with numerous strands of blue beads around its neck, and painted + upon the face, breast, and back with designs symbolic of the sun and + moon. [Martinez says the face is entirely obscured by hanging + beads.] The image itself is of dark-green stone, in form rudely + resembling a human head and bust, probably shaped by art like the + stone fetishes of the Pueblo tribes. It is preserved in a rawhide + box in charge of the hereditary keeper, and is never under any + circumstances exposed to view except at the annual sun dance, when + it is fastened to a short upright stick planted within the medicine + lodge, near the western side.... The ancient _tai´me_ image was of + buckskin, with a stalk of Indian tobacco for a headdress. This + buckskin image was left in the medicine lodge, with all the other + adornments and sacrificial offerings, at the close of each ceremony. + The present _tai´me_ is one of three, two of which came originally + from the Crows, through an Arapaho who married into the Kiowa tribe, + while the third came by capture from the Blackfeet.[6] + +The bundle containing the image is usually hung outside of its keeper's +tipi. It is not customary to expose the image except at the sun dance, +but tobacco is placed with it from time to time. Its function outside of +the dance is identical with its use there: those who need its aid make +vows to it, which they fulfil by sacrificing horses, etc., and making +sweatlodges. The image is the property of one man, or more properly of +his family, since it may be inherited by his blood relatives. If the +transfer is made before the father's death, payment and a sweatlodge +must be given by the son.[7] After Long Foot died about 1870, as he had +no son, it passed into the possession of three of his nephews in +succession, and reverted in 1894 to his daughter who still has it.[8] +While she may handle the image, she would not be permitted to enter the +dance with it.[9] There the functions which would normally devolve on +her would be performed in their entirety by a captive. This captive has +been trained to the position in order to take the place of the image +keeper should he be sick. A captive is chosen for the substitute so that +a calamity incurred by a mischance in the proceedings may fall on him +alone and not on the Kiowa. The erstwhile substitute, a Mexican, is +still living. The image keeper, like his four associates, must not look +in a mirror, nor touch a skunk or jackrabbit. One who touches these +animals cannot enter the tipi where the doll is housed until four days +have elapsed. No dog is allowed in this tipi, nor is one permitted to +jump over the keeper or his four associates, the _g.uolg.uat`_. + +There are ten or twelve minor images (_tailyúka_) which strongly +resemble the _tai´me_ in function, as they are essentially war +medicines. Most of them were in the keeping of men other than the sacred +doll owner, but two were kept by him for a time.[10] They have little or +no part in the sun dance. + + The _Gadômbítsoñhi_, "Old-woman-under-the-ground," belonged to the + Kiñep band of the Kiowa. It was a small image, less than a foot + high, representing a woman with flowing hair. It was exposed in + front of the _tai´me_ at the great sun-dance ceremony, and by some + unexplained jugglery the priest in charge of it caused it to rise + out of the ground, dance in the sight of the people, and then again + sink into the earth.[11] + +The sun dance was normally an annual ceremony, but sometimes a year +passed without one. The dance was theoretically dependent on someone +going to the keeper and saying, "I dreamed of it (_i.e._, the sun +dance)," or on the keeper himself dreaming of it. On two occasions a +second dance was held in the dance lodge after the keeper had removed +the sacred doll at the close of the first dance, because a second man +had also dreamed of it.[12] After the dream is announced the keeper +hangs the image on his back and rides out to all the camps, announcing, +as he circles them, that he will conduct the ceremony the following +spring (May or June). This announcement was sometimes made immediately +after the close of the preceding dance, but usually it came just before +they intended to hold the dance.[13] The keeper fasts while he is making +the announcement, even if it takes three days, as may happen when the +camps were scattered. When they know the dance is to be held, others vow +to dance for a specified number of days, and all gather near the dance +ground. No one may absent himself: they are all afraid of his medicine. +When the tribe is assembled, the keeper circles the camp, again bearing +the sacred doll on his back. + +Two young men are selected by the keeper from one of the military +societies[14] to scout for a tree to serve as center pole for the dance +lodge. While searching, they must refrain from drinking. About this time +all those intending to dance are building sweatlodges to purify +themselves: the keeper must enter each of these to direct the +proceedings; this entails considerable work on him. Should he be sick at +this time, the doll is carried into the sweatlodge by the captive in his +stead. It is incumbent on the _tai´me_ shield owners to accompany this +captive and help him perform the necessary ceremonies. When the tree for +the center pole has been selected, the whole camp moves after the keeper +and his family to the dance ground. A dozen or more old men follow +immediately after him. The main body is guarded front, rear, and both +flanks by the military societies, as is customary when a camp moves.[15] +The procession halts four times on its journey while the keeper smokes +and prays. Next, the soldier societies charge on the dance ground, +or rather on a pole erected there before the camp circle is +established,[16] according to Methvin (p. 64), but on the newly +established camp itself according to Scott's informants (p. 357). + +The next morning the man who has that privilege sets out with his wife +to get the hide of a young buffalo bull. When such a person dies, the +keeper appoints one of his kin to take his place.[17] The couple must +fast while on this hunt. If the buffalo is killed with a single arrow, +it is a favorable omen, if many are needed, the opposite is indicated. +The buffalo must be killed so that he falls on his belly with his head +toward the east. A broad strip of back skin, with the tail and head skin +attached is carried to the keeper's tipi, where feathers are tied to its +head.[18] + +The next morning they set out to fetch the center pole. Scott describes +a parade around the camp circle by the military societies which then +proceed to charge the tree selected for the center pole, which is +defended in sham combat by one of the men's societies[19] (_akiaik`to_, +war with the trees). After the chiefs have recited their coups, and +prayers have been said by the sacred doll keeper and his wife, who have +brought the doll there, the tree is chopped down by a captive Mexican +woman. A captive is always selected for this difficult task, so that any +harm due to an error on her part may not fall on a tribesman. This +function is always performed by a Mexican woman: when she dies, the +keeper appoints her successor. As the tree falls, they shout and shoot +in the air. The pole is carried to the dance ground by a society +designated by the keeper,[20] where a hole to receive it has been dug by +a men's military society.[21] The pole is set upright by a single +medicineman who owns this privilege. The buffalo hide is then fastened +across the forks with its head to the east and offerings of cloth, etc., +brought by various individuals are tied to it. In 1873 Battey +observed:-- + + The central post is ornamented near the ground with the robes of + buffalo calves, their heads up, as if in the act of climbing it; + each of the branches above the fork is ornamented in a similar + manner, with the addition of shawls, calico, scarfs, &c., and + covered at the top with black muslin. Attached to the fork is a + bundle of cottonwood and willow limbs, firmly bound together, and + covered with a buffalo robe, with head and horns, so as to form a + rude image of a buffalo, to which were hung strips of new calico, + muslin, strouding, both blue and scarlet, feathers, shawls, &c., of + various lengths and qualities. The longer and more showy articles + were placed near the ends. This image was so placed as to face the + east.[22] + +The center pole is not painted. + +After the center pole is in place, everyone, but especially the military +societies, assists in building the enclosing structure. The lodge is +like those of the Arapaho and Cheyenne: it is circular, the rafters rest +on the center pole, and the covering of boughs extends a third of the +way to the center of the roof. An entrance is left on the east side. A +flat stone is placed here so that every dancer passing through must set +his foot on it. Wet sand is spread over the ground in the dance +lodge[23] and heaped around the base of the center pole. Two little +round holes, walled in with mud, are dug near the rear of the lodge to +hold incense smudges. A screen of cottonwood and cedar branches is +constructed just north of these. + + This business continued through the day, except for an hour or two + in the middle of the afternoon, when the old women[24]--the + grandmothers of the tribe--had a dance. The music consisted of + singing and drumming, done by several old women, who were squatted + on the ground in a circle. The dancers--old, gray-headed women, from + sixty to eighty years of age--performed in a circle around them for + some time, finally striking off upon a waddling run, one behind + another; they formed a circle, came back and, doubling so as to + bring two together, threw their arms around each other's necks, and + trudged around for some time longer; then sat down, while a youngish + man circulated the pipe, from which each in turn took two or three + whiffs, and this ceremony ended.[25] + + [When the dance lodge was completed] the soldiers of the tribe then + had a frolic in and about it, running and jumping, striking and + kicking, throwing one another down, stripping and tearing the + clothes off each other.[26]... Before this frolic was over, a party + of ten or twelve warriors appeared, moving a kind of shield to and + fro before their bodies, making, in some manner (as I was not near + enough to see how it was done), a grating sound, not unlike the + filing of a mill-saw.[27] + + In the afternoon, a party of a dozen or more warriors and braves + proceeded to the medicine house, followed by a large proportion of + the people of the encampment. They were highly painted, and wore + shirts only, with head-dresses of feathers which extended down the + backs to the ground, and were kept in their proper places by means + of an ornamented strap clasping the waist. Some of them had long + horns attached to their head-dresses. They were armed with lances + and revolvers, and carrying a couple of long poles mounted from end + to end with feathers, the one white and the other black. They also + bore shields highly ornamented with paint, feathers, and hair. + + They took their station upon the side opposite the entrance, the + musicians standing behind them. + + Many old women occupied a position to the right and near the + entrance, who set up a tremulous shrieking; the drums began to beat, + and the dance began, the party above described only participating in + it. + + They at first slowly advanced towards the central post, followed by + the musicians several of whom carried a side of raw hide (dried), + which was beaten upon with sticks, making about as much music as to + beat upon the sole of an old shoe, while the drums, the voices of + the women, and the rattling of pebbles in instruments of raw hide + filled out the choir. + + After slowly advancing nearly to the central post, they retired + backward, again advanced, a little farther than before; this was + repeated several times, each time advancing a little farther, until + they crowded upon the spectators, drew their revolvers, and + discharged them into the air. + + Soon after, the women rushed forward with a shrieking yell, threw + their blankets violently upon the ground, at the feet of the + retiring dancers, snatched them up with the same tremulous shriek + that had been before produced, and retired; which closed this part + of the entertainment. The ornamented shields used on this occasion + were afterwards hung up with the medicine.[28] + +These may be the shields which are associated with the _tai´me_. Later, +after the sacred doll has been brought into the lodge, they are either +hung with it on the cedar screen as Battey observed,[29] or on stakes +set up outside the dance lodge to the west, i.e., behind the image, +where Martinez saw them. No offerings are made to them there. It is +incumbent on a _tai´me_ shield owner to dance with the associates +(_g.uolg.uat`_) in every sun dance so long as he continues to own the +shield. He is not considered one of the associates however. Shield +owners always help the image keeper when he asks their aid. They must +also assist his captive substitute when officiating in a sweatlodge. A +shield owner cannot sell his shield, but he may give it to his son in +anticipation of his death, receiving presents in return. Otherwise, on +the death of its owner the shield is placed on his grave. Should a son +or nephew dream of it, he has the right to make a duplicate with the +help of the doll owner in order to keep it in the family. However, if +any other man dreams of it and wants to make the duplicate, he must pay +the owner.[30] The shield is usually hung outside of its owner's tipi. +The shield owners "must not eat buffalo hearts, or touch a bearskin, or +have anything to do with a bear." Like the associates, "they must not +smoke with their moccasins on,[31] or kill, or eat any kind of rabbit, +or kill or touch a skunk."[32] These shields are used only in war as +their owner's personal medicine: no offerings are ever made to them. + +Late in the day, a number of men who have vowed to take part in the +subsequent dance, together with one woman who has the privilege,[33] are +garbed in buffalo robes to represent the living animals. They gather to +the east of the lodge where they simulate the actions of a herd of +buffalo. A man, called a scout, starts from the entrance of the lodge +with a firebrand and circles about the herd until he meets a second man, +mounted and carrying a shield and a straight pipe, who thereupon drives +the buffalo toward the dance lodge, which they circle several times +before negotiating the entrance. Once inside they lie down; the man with +the pipe dismounts and enters. Picking up the hairs on the back of first +one animal and another, he says, "This is the fattest animal. He is our +protector in war." Then he recites a coup. This designated (or makes ?) +a brave man of that buffalo.[34] Both the man with the firebrand and he +with the pipe ought to be medicinemen. The present incumbent of the +first office also has the privilege of erecting the center pole. When +these men die, the sacred doll keeper selects successors from their +families.[35] + +That evening after sunset the dance proper begins, to last four nights +and days, ending in the evening. The doll keeper proceeds to his own +tipi, where, with the assistance of seven other medicinemen (_tai´me_ +shield keepers and some others not otherwise connected with the +ceremony), he unwraps the _tai´me_. Carrying it on his back, he walks to +the dance lodge, and, completely circles it four times, feigning to +enter each time he passes the entrance. After entering, he goes around +by the south side to the northwest quadrant, where he plants the image +hanging on a staff. Formerly two or more of the minor images, +_tailyúka_, were placed with the _tai´me_. After the image is in place +the dancers enter to perform for the night. + +The keeper dances throughout the whole four-day period. He is painted +yellow, with a design representing the sun, and sometimes another for +the moon, drawn on his chest and back. "His face was painted, like that +of the Taimay itself, with red and black zigzag lines downward from the +eyes." He wears a yellow buckskin kilt, a jackrabbit skin cap with down +attached, and sage wristlets. He is barefoot. He carries a bunch of +cedar in his hand, and an eagle bone whistle from which an eagle feather +is pendent. Battey observed that he was painted white at the +"buffalo-herding" rite, and not painted at all in the dance proper.[36] + +Beside the _tai´me_ keeper there are three classes of persons who dance; +the associates (_g.uolg.uat`_), the _tai´me_ shield keepers, and the +common dancers. The four associates (Scott's "keeper's assistants") must +dance throughout the whole four day period. They appear in four +successive dances (normally four years), after which they choose +successors from among those young men, eighteen to thirty years old, who +have made the best records in war. These young men, with the assistance +of their relatives,[37] pay horses and buffalo robes for the privilege, +receiving the regalia in return.[38] One who is chosen cannot refuse: if +he does, he may expect a calamity. The associate may belong to any of +the military societies. His office does not impose obligations of +foolhardiness in war (such as the no-flight idea), but he is obliged to +act the part of an intrepid warrior, because he enjoys security in +battle.[39] The associate must not look in a mirror lest he become +blind,[40] nor can he touch a skunk or jackrabbit, nor remain near a +fire where someone is cooking. Dogs must not be permitted to jump over +an associate. He must remove his moccasins before he smokes, but others +may keep theirs on when smoking in his presence. The associate dances in +order to live long and to be a great warrior. His body is painted white +or yellow: a round spot representing the sun is painted on the middle of +his chest, with a crescent moon (the concavity upward) on both sides of +the sun, and the same decoration is repeated on his back. The skin is +cut away as a sacrifice and to make these designs permanent after his +first dance. A scalp from a _tai´me_ shield hangs on his breast with two +eagle feathers; another on his back. His face is "ornamented with a +green stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of the +cheeks, to the corners of the mouth, and meeting on the chin."[41] He +wears a yellow buckskin kilt, with his breechclout hung outside, like +the Arapaho and Cheyenne sun dancers. Bunches of sage are stuck into his +belt, others tied around his wrists and ankles, and carried in each +hand. On his head is either a cap of jackrabbitskin in which is stuck an +eagle feather or a sage wreath with down attached. He carries a bone +whistle. Like the sacred doll keeper and all other dancers, he is +barefoot.[42] Battey saw three associates purify themselves in the +incense from the censors, and then dance on piles of sage.[43] + +The _tai´me_ shield owners, who dance with the associates are sometimes +painted yellow or green with pictures of the sun and moon on their +bodies, but otherwise they wear the regalia of the common dancers. + +The rank and file of the dancers are men, never women. Anyone may vow to +dance a certain number of days, with the object of becoming a better +warrior and living long. + + They believe that it warded off sickness, caused happiness, + prosperity, many children, success in war, and plenty of buffalo for + all the people. It was frequently vowed by persons in danger from + sickness or the enemy.[44] + +Sometimes a medicineman danced to intercede for a sick man. A sick man +who had vowed to attend the dance in order to be cured would be carried +into the dance lodge, but he would not dance. These dancers make +offerings to the _tai´me_. They do not pay the doll keeper in order to +enter the dance, and they have no rights in any subsequent performance +by reason of having once participated. Like all other dancers they must +fast and go without water during the period that they dance; they can +however, smoke, provided the proper rites are observed. + + ... The pipe was filled, brought forward, and laid upon the ground; + the person, carefully turning the stem towards the fire, and bedding + it in the sand, so that the bowl should remain in an upright + position, arose and stood with his back towards it, or facing the + medicine. It was then approached by one of the musicians, who, in a + squatting position, raised his hand reverently towards the sun, the + medicine, the top of the central post, or buffalo; then, passing his + hands slowly over the pipe, took it up with his left hand, and + taking a pinch from the bowl with the thumb and fore finger of the + right, held it to the sun, the medicine, the top of the central + post, then the bottom, and finally covered it up in the ground. He + then proceeded to light the pipe, blowing a whiff of smoke towards + the several objects of adoration, and placed it carefully where he + found it, in reversed order, that is, with the stem from the fire. + The person who brought it had stood waiting all this time for it. He + now took it up and retired to the dancers, who, wrapped in buffalo + robes, were waiting, in a squatting position, to receive it. The + sand where the pipe had lain was carefully smoothed by the hand, and + all marks of it wholly obliterated.[45] + +These dancers are painted white; they wear white buckskin kilts, with +the breechclout outside, carry bone whistles, and are barefoot. They +have no headdress, wrist or ankle ornaments. They paint themselves.[46] +There is only one style of paint used by either the principal or the +common dancers throughout the sun dance. + +The dancers form a line on the east side of the lodge facing the image. +Their step is that characteristic of the sun dance of other tribes: they +stand in place, alternately bending their knees and rising on their +toes. They dance intermittently throughout four days and nights; the +common dancers leave as the periods for which they have vowed to dance +have elapsed or when they can no longer stand the combined strain of +fasting, thirsting, and dancing. Martinez left after three days and +nights. The "four days and nights" which are specified are in reality +only three nights and days; evidently the first day of preliminary +dancing is included to fill out the quota to the magic "four." In +Scott's account, the dancers perform on the first day from evening to +the middle of the night, and on the succeeding days from sunrise to the +chorus's breakfast, nine o'clock to dinner, four in the afternoon to +sundown, and from evening to midnight, ending in the evening of the +fourth day. The dance Battey describes evidently began in the evening of +the 18th and continued intermittently to late afternoon of the 21st. +Apparently the dancers do not leave the lodge during this entire period. + + _19th_ [June, 1873.]--Music and dancing continued in the medicine + house through the night. At an early hour this morning I went + thither with Couguet, and witnessed one dance throughout. The ground + inside the enclosure had been carefully cleared of grass, sticks, + and roots, and covered, several inches deep, with a clean, white + sand. A screen had been constructed on the side opposite the + entrance, by sticking small cottonwoods and cedars deep into the + ground, so as to preserve them fresh as long as possible. A space + was left, two or three feet wide, between it and the enclosing wall, + in which the dancers prepared themselves for the dance, and in front + of which was the medicine. This consisted of an image, lying on the + ground, but so concealed from view, in the screen, as to render its + form indistinguishable; above it was a large fan, made of eagle + quills, [an error, these are crow feathers], with the quill part + lengthened out nearly a foot, by inserting a stick into it, and + securing it there. These were held in a spread form by means of a + willow rod, or wire, bent in a circular form; above this was a mass + of feathers, concealing an image, on each side of which were several + shields, highly decorated with feathers and paint. Various other + paraphernalia of heathen worship were suspended in the screen, among + these shields or over them, impossible for me to describe so as to + be comprehended. A mound had also been thrown up around the central + post of the building, two feet high, and perhaps five feet in + diameter. + + The musicians, who, if I mistake not, are the war chiefs, were + squatted on the ground, in true heathen style, to the left, and near + the entrance, having Indian drums and rattles. The music was + sounding when we entered. + + Presently the dancers came from behind the screen; their faces, + arms, and the upper part of their bodies were painted white; a soft, + white buckskin skirt, secured about the loins, descended nearly to + the ankles, while the breech-cloth,--blue on this occasion,--hanging + to the ground, outside the skirt, both in front and behind, + completed the dress. They faced the medicine--shall I say idols? for + it was conducted with all the solemnity of worship,--jumping up and + down in true time with the beating of the drums, while a bone + whistle in their mouths, through which the breath escaped as they + jumped about, and the singing of the women, completed the music. The + dancers continued to face the medicine, with arms stretched upwards + and towards it,--their eyes as it were riveted to it. They were + apparently oblivious to all surroundings, except the music and what + was before them. + + After some time, a middle-aged man, painted as the others, but + wearing a buffalo robe, issued from behind the screen, facing + the entrance, but having his eyes fixed upon the sun, upon + which he stood gazing, without winking or moving a muscle, + for some time, then began slowly to incline his head from side + to side, as if to avoid some obstruction in his view of it, + swaying his body slightly, then, stepping slowly from side to + side--forward--backward--increasing his motions, both in rapidity + and extent, until in appearance nearly frantic, his robes fell off, + leaving him--except his blue breechclout--entirely naked. In this + condition he jumped and ran about the enclosure,--head, arms, + and legs all equally participating in the violence of his + gestures,--every joint of his body apparently loosened, his eyes + only fixed. I wondered how, with every joint apparently dislocated, + and every muscular fibre relaxed, he could maintain the upright + position. + + Thus he continued to exercise without ceasing, or once removing his + eyes from the sun, until the sweat ran down in great rolling drops, + washing the white paint into streaks no more ornamental than the + original painting, and he was at length compelled to retire, from + mere exhaustion, the other dancers still continuing their exercises. + + Presently another man [the _tai´me_ keeper] entered from behind the + screen, wearing an Indian fur cap and a blue breechcloth reaching to + the ground. He was unpainted, and had a human scalp fastened to his + scalplock, the soft, flowing hair of which, spreading out upon his + naked back, bore mute testimony to the tragical death of some + unfortunate white woman. This man, with a kind of half running jump, + still in step with the music, went around all the dancers, who did + not notice him, with one arm stretched out over his heads, first in + one direction, then the other, turning his course at every time, + after stopping in front of the medicine, and making some + indescribable motions before it. He sometimes parted the feathers + concealing the small image, appearing to examine it minutely, as if + searching for something, and sometimes putting his lips to it, as if + in the act of kissing it. [He takes some medicine root into his + mouth, chews it and blows it on the dancers.][47] At length, after + repeated examinations, he, apparently for the first time, discovered + the fan, and took hold of it hesitatingly, and as if afraid. + + This was loosed from its fastenings by a hand behind the screen, and + he slowly raised it up, looking intently at it, while the expression + of his countenance indicated a fearfulness of the result of handling + an object whose hidden and mysterious powers were so far beyond his + comprehension. He held it up before the medicine, waved it up and + down, and from side to side, then, turning round so as to face the + dancers and spectators, waved it from side to side near the ground, + once around the dancers; then, raising it above his head, he waved + it in the same manner, performing another circle around the dancers. + + Then, with gestures of striking, and a countenance scowling as with + fierce rage, he began to chase them around and around the ring, + [i.e., around the center pole] from left to right. Finally, getting + one of them separated from the rest, he pursued him with the most + fiend-like attitude, fiercely striking at him with his fan. The + pursued one fled from him with a countenance expressive of almost + death-like terror, until, after several rounds, he stumbled and fell + heavily to the ground. Another and another were thus separated from + the dancers, pursued, and fell before the mystical power of the fan, + and the act closed.[48] + +The "feather-killing" (_staienkial_, he runs after them with feathers) +occurs every day in the late forenoon.[49] The associates as well as the +other dancers, are fanned into unconsciousness.[50] In such a condition +they would try to get visions: they would rise, call for a pipe, and +announce what they had seen.[51] + + Being called to a council of the war chiefs, I went no more to the + medicine house to-day, though the music and dancing continued the + whole time, by day and by night, with short intervals between the + different acts, to give opportunity for rest, arranging dress, + painting, and such other changes as the programme of the ceremony + demanded. + + _20th._--Saw but one dance to-day. Quite a quantity of goods, such + as blankets, strouding (blue and scarlet list-cloth), calico, + shawls, scarfs, and other Indian wares, had been carried into the + medicine house previous to my entrance. The dancers had been painted + white, three of them [the _g.uolg.uat`_] ornamented with a green + stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of the cheeks, + to the corner of the mouth, and meeting on the chin. A round green + spot was painted on the back and breast, about three inches in + diameter, while on either side of it, and somewhat elevated above + it, was a crescent of the same size and color. Two small, hollow + mounds of sand and clay had been made before the medicine, in which + fire was placed, and kept just sufficiently burning, with the + partially dried cottonwood leaves, cedar twigs, and probably + tobacco, to produce a smoke. A small fire was burning near the + musicians, for lighting pipes, tightening drums, &c. + + When all was ready, the three young men, who were painted as + described, were led, each by a man clad in a buffalo robe [possibly + the former _g.uolg.uat`_ who were transferring their privileges], + near to the smoking mounds in front of the medicine. An ornamented + fur cap was, with some ceremony, placed upon the head of one of + them; wisps of green wild wormwood were fastened to the wrists and + ankles, which being done, he reverently raised his hands above his + head, leaning forward over one of the mounds, brought them down + nearly to it; then, straightening up, passed his hands over his face + and stroked his breast. This was repeated several times; then, after + holding one foot, and the other, over the mound, as if to warm them, + two or three times, he went around the central post, and back to the + other mound, where the same ceremony was repeated. During this whole + ceremony I could perceive that his lips moved, though he uttered + nothing. I afterwards learned that it was in prayer to this effect: + "May this medicine render me brave in war, proof against the weapons + of my enemies, strong in the chase, wise in council; and, finally, + may it preserve me to a good age, and may I at last die in peace + among my own people." The others, one at a time, were similarly + brought forward, and went through with the same ceremony. Three + bunches of wild wormwood were then placed on the ground in a row, + crossing the line of entrance, and between it and the central post, + upon which the three young men were placed by their attendants, who + stood behind them, with their hands upon their shoulders, the music + playing all the time. Two or three men then approached the pile of + goods, selected therefrom some plaid shawls, strouding, blankets, + scarfs, and an umbrella, and hung them over the medicine; this being + done, the six men began to dance,--the three foremost ones upon the + wormwood, with their arms stretched towards the medicine, the three + others with their hands still resting upon the shoulders of the + former. After some time the latter retired; the other dancers came + from behind the screen, and joined in the dance, which continued + until they were driven off by the medicine chief, as described in + yesterday's dance. All these ceremonies had a sacred significance, + which I did not understand, but have been informed that they believe + any article of wearing apparel, or of harness for their horses, hung + up by the medicine during these ceremonies, receives a charmed power + to protect their wearers from disease, or the assaults of their + enemies, during the year. + + _21st._--At one of the dances to-day, all but one retired behind the + screen, who continued to dance by himself for a long time. Various + articles were brought forward, and laid upon the ground, which he + took up and hung in proximity to the medicine. After along time, the + other dancers reappeared, and he retired; these continued their + exercises, until driven off as before. The last dance differed from + the preceding in this: the last man selected and separated from the + others by the medicine chief to be driven off, though he ran from + him, did not appear terrified, and would not fall down, but retired, + with the medicine chief, behind the screen. + + At one of the dances to-day, five human scalps were exhibited,--one + attached to each of the right wrists of two men, and one to each + wrist of another, besides the one worn attached to the scalp lock of + the medicine chief. Two of these scalps were from the heads of + Indians. They had all been tanned, and evidently belonged with the + medicine fixtures. + + The whole ceremony closed about four o'clock in the afternoon. The + medicine was packed away by the medicine chief, and the several + articles which had been hung about it--medicated, I suppose, or, in + other words, sanctified by proximity to the sacred things during + the ceremonies, and consequently having power to protect their + possessors from evil--were restored to the proper owners. They then + packed them, took them upon their backs, formed into a procession, + and marched, to the music of the drums, around and out of the + medicine house, whence every one took the direction of his or her + own lodge, and the ceremonies of the great medicine were ended.[52] + +At the end of the ceremony, the image keeper chews up some medicine root +and prepares a drink, of which the dancers are permitted to imbibe a +little.[53] + +After the image has been removed, old clothing is hung on the center +pole as a sacrifice. Once Martinez saw a horse tied to the center pole +as a sacrifice to the sun. It remained there until it starved to death. +Horses were also painted and placed, together with blankets and similar +valuables, on high hills as sacrifices. Others beside the associates +sacrificed their flesh to the sun at this time, or in fact, whenever +they wanted to, as Martinez has done. The Kiowa never suspended their +dancers, as in the self-torture dance of other tribes, neither in the +sun dance, nor when an individual sought a vision while fasting alone in +the mountains. + +The night the dance closes everyone joins in a hilarious time in the +dance lodge. 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H., "Societies of the Kiowa" (this series, vol. 11), 847; +Mooney, 325, 338. + +[5] Mooney, 253, states the contrary. + +[6] Mooney, 240; Plate LXIX shows a model (see Scott, 349). + +[7] This coupling of purchase with inheritance is strictly comparable to +the Hidatsa bundle (this volume, 416-417). + +[8] Scott, 369, 373. + +[9] If this is more than a general taboo against women handling sacred +objects, it has its parallel in a similar Crow bias (this volume, 13). + +[10] Mooney, 241, 323, 324. + +[11] Mooney, 239. + +[12] Mooney, 279, 343. + +[13] Lowie, 842. + +[14] Lowie, 843. + +[15] Compare, Battey, Thomas C., _The Life and Adventures of a Quaker +among the Indians_ (Boston, 1876) 185. + +[16] The Southern Cheyenne also charge and count coup on some sticks +marking the site of the dance lodge (G. A. Dorsey, _Cheyenne Sun +Dance_). + +[17] Cf. 83, 109. Mooney, 349. + +[18] Scott, 358-360, 365. In this account the hide is taken into a +sweatlodge at this juncture. + +[19] "Foot-soldiers," Scott, 360-361. + +[20] Lowie, 843. + +[21] Not by a woman's society as Scott's informant states (361). + +[22] Battey, 170. + +[23] By the "old women soldiers" according to Scott (361), but Martinez +informs me that, with the exception of the dance described by Battey, +the two women's societies have no significant part in the sun dance. + +[24] The Old Woman society (Lowie, 850). + +[25] Battey, 168. + +[26] Cf. Lowie, 843. + +[27] Battey, 169. + +[28] Battey, 170-172. War singing _gwudanke_, was customary before an +expedition set out for war (Lowie, 850). + +[29] Scott, Pl. XXV. + +[30] Evidently a shield of this type was made by Koñate, who was +instructed to do so by the _tai´me_ which appeared to him as he lay +wounded (Mooney, 304). + +[31] Lewis notes this custom for the Shoshoni, and Lowie for their +medicinemen when treating the sick (Lowie, Northern Shoshone, 213-214). +The Crow do not smoke where their moccasins are hung up, according to +Maximilian, (Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis +1834 [Coblenz, 1841], I, 400). + +[32] Scott, 373. + +[33] Scott, 362. + +[34] Martinez puts this performance after the image has been brought +into the dance lodge: this does not seem correct. + +[35] Battey has the keeper signal to the herd with a firebrand. Neither +Battey nor Scott mention a mounted herder; the former puts the pipe in +the hands of the keeper, and the latter in those of a third man who +remains in the dance lodge, but in Scott's account also the function of +the pipe is to force the buffalo to enter the lodge. In Battey's account +two men assist the keeper in designating warriors, and in Scott's three +men with straight pipes do it. (Battey, 172-173; Scott, 362-364). + +[36] Battey, 173, 176; Scott, 351-352, 367, Pl. XXII; Methvin, 66, notes +that his feet are painted black with sage wreaths about his ankles. + +[37] Lowie, 843. + +[38] Martinez, in Methvin's account, (71), states that the payment is +made in four successive years. + +[39] Methvin, 71; Scott, 352, states that these men directed the sun +dance as substitutes for the keeper and did the ceremonial painting, but +this is contrary to my information. + +[40] Compare Mooney, 296. + +[41] Battey, 178. + +[42] Compare Scott, 352, 368, Pls. XVIII, XXII; Methvin, 70-71. + +[43] Battey, 178-179. + +[44] Scott, 347. + +[45] Battey, 181-182. + +[46] Mooney, 302, notes that one of these individuals carried his +personal medicine in the dance. + +[47] Methvin, 66; Scott, 366. + +[48] Battey, 173-177. + +[49] Once, not three times a day as Scott states (366). + +[50] Scott, 366, places raven fans in hands of the associates. + +[51] In the ghost dance a shaman hypnotizes the dancers by waving a +feather or scarf before their faces. The subject staggers into the ring +and falls (Mooney, _Ghost dance_, 925-926). This performance may not be +related to that of the Kiowa, since it appeared among the Sioux before +the southern Plains tribes took up the ghost dance. On the other hand, +the Paiute, from whom the ghost dance was derived, did not hypnotize. + +[52] Battey, 177-181. + +[53] Scott, 365, 367. + +[54] Mooney, _Kiowa Calendar History_, 282, 297, 304, 321, 322. Another +suggestive similarity to the Crow is the assumption of "no-flight" +obligations in both tribes at the sun dance (_Ibid._, 284, 287, 320). + + + + +Transcriber's note: On page 443, 'the the' changed to 'the' (Once inside +they lie down; the man with the pipe ...) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance, by Leslie Spier + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + +***** This file should be named 36224-8.txt or 36224-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/2/2/36224/ + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance + +Author: Leslie Spier + +Release Date: May 28, 2011 [EBook #36224] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<h1>ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS</h1> +<h4>OF</h4> + +<h1>THE AMERICAN MUSEUM<br /> +OF NATURAL HISTORY</h1> + +<p> </p> +<h1><span class="smcap">Vol. XVI, Part VI</span></h1> +<p> </p> + +<h2>NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE</h2> + +<h4>BY</h4> + +<h2>LESLIE SPIER</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/logo.png" height="205" width="200" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>NEW YORK<br /> +PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES<br /> +1921</h3> + + + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_433" id="Page_433">[Pg 433]</a></span></p> + + +<p> </p> + +<h2> +NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE.<br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">By Leslie Spier.</span></h2> + + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_434" id="Page_434">[Pg 434]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_435" id="Page_435">[Pg 435]</a></span></p> +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Text Figures.</span></h3> + + +<div class="center"> +<table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" width="80%"> + <tbody><tr> + <td> </td> + <td align="right"><span class="smcap">Page.</span></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>1. Groundplan of Dance Lodge </td> + <td align="right"><a href="#Page_441">441</a></td> + </tr> +</tbody></table> + + +</div> + + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_436" id="Page_436">[Pg 436]</a></span></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_437" id="Page_437">[Pg 437]</a></span></p> + +<h2>NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE.</h2> + +<p>The following notes were obtained from Andres Martinez (Andele, a Mexican +captive of the Kiowa whose history<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +is well known) in August, 1919. Attention was directed in the first instance to +the organization of the dance, but a brief description of the whole ceremony was +also obtained, chiefly by way of comments on Scott's account.<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> +The last Kiowa sun dance was held in 1887.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a></p> + +<p>The Kiowa sun dance is the prerogative of the individual who owns the sacred +image, the <i>tai'me</i>. He deputes the ancillary offices where he sees fit, +although there is a well-defined tendency for them to be hereditary. The +predominant idea of this image is that of a war medicine. Thus the dance is +fundamentally like that of the Crow, but it differs from it in two important +respects. First, the Kiowa rites cluster about only one particular medicine, +whereas among the Crow, any one of a number of medicine dolls may be used in the +ceremony. The question arises whether the dozen minor Kiowa images, which are +sometimes brought into the dance, were more recently acquired or constructed in +order to reproduce the functions of the <i>tai'me</i>, or whether one medicine +doll has completely overshadowed all the others, as seemed about to happen among +the Crow. The evidence favors the first view, since no rites, other than those +attendant on any personal medicine, are described, or even intimated, for the +minor images. The second difference is, that while the Crow shaman invokes his +medicine for any one who appeals to him for aid, acting only in a directive +capacity, the Kiowa <i>tai'me</i> +owner is himself the principal suppliant. Were it not for the hereditary bias in +the distribution of ceremonial functions, the Kiowa sun dance would be the +prerogative of one man as completely as that of the Crow is, when the latter is +once under way. The hereditary principle does not appear in the military +societies except in the ownership of the medicine lance or arrow (<i>zë'bo</i>).<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a></p> + +<p>The Kiowa sun dance (<i>k’o<sup>θ</sup>du<sup>n</sup></i> specifically the +name for the lodge) was an annual tribal affair, in which the associated Kiowa +Apache freely joined.<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> +It was danced in an effort to obtain material benefits from, or through, the +medicine doll in the possession of the medicineman, who is at the same time +director and principal performer.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_438" id="Page_438">[Pg +438]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This is a small image, less than 2 feet in length, + representing a human figure dressed in a robe of white feathers, with a + headdress consisting of a single upright feather and pendants of ermine + skin, with numerous strands of blue beads around its neck, and painted upon + the face, breast, and back with designs symbolic of the sun and moon. + [Martinez says the face is entirely obscured by hanging beads.] The image + itself is of dark-green stone, in form rudely resembling a human head and + bust, probably shaped by art like the stone fetishes of the Pueblo tribes. + It is preserved in a rawhide box in charge of the hereditary keeper, and is + never under any circumstances exposed to view except at the annual sun + dance, when it is fastened to a short upright stick planted within the + medicine lodge, near the western side.... The ancient <i>tai'me</i> + image was of buckskin, with a stalk of Indian tobacco for a headdress. This + buckskin image was left in the medicine lodge, with all the other adornments + and sacrificial offerings, at the close of each ceremony. The present <i> + tai'me</i> is one of three, two of which came originally from the Crows, + through an Arapaho who married into the Kiowa tribe, while the third came by + capture from the Blackfeet.<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p></div> + +<p>The bundle containing the image is usually hung outside of its keeper's tipi. +It is not customary to expose the image except at the sun dance, but tobacco is +placed with it from time to time. Its function outside of the dance is identical +with its use there: those who need its aid make vows to it, which they fulfil by +sacrificing horses, etc., and making sweatlodges. The image is the property of +one man, or more properly of his family, since it may be inherited by his blood +relatives. If the transfer is made before the father's death, payment and a +sweatlodge must be given by the son.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> +After Long Foot died about 1870, as he had no son, it passed into the possession +of three of his nephews in succession, and reverted in 1894 to his daughter who +still has it.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> +While she may handle the image, she would not be permitted to enter the dance +with it.<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> +There the functions which would normally devolve on her would be performed in +their entirety by a captive. This captive has been trained to the position in +order to take the place of the image keeper should he be sick. A captive is +chosen for the substitute so that a calamity incurred by a mischance in the +proceedings may fall on him alone and not on the Kiowa. The erstwhile +substitute, a Mexican, is still living. The image keeper, like his four +associates, must not look in a mirror, nor touch a skunk or jackrabbit. One who +touches these animals cannot enter the tipi where the doll is housed until four +days have elapsed. No dog is allowed in this tipi, nor is one permitted to jump +over the keeper or his four associates, the <i>g.uołg.uȧt`</i>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_439" id="Page_439">[Pg +439]</a></span></p> + +<p>There are ten or twelve minor images (<i>ta<sup>i</sup>lyúkȧ</i>) which +strongly resemble the <i>tai'me</i> in function, as they are essentially war +medicines. Most of them were in the keeping of men other than the sacred doll +owner, but two were kept by him for a time.<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> +They have little or no part in the sun dance.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The <i>GadômbÃtsoñhi</i>, + "Old-woman-under-the-ground," belonged to the Kiñep band of the Kiowa. It + was a small image, less than a foot high, representing a woman with flowing + hair. It was exposed in front of the <i>tai'me</i> at the great sun-dance + ceremony, and by some unexplained jugglery the priest in charge of it caused + it to rise out of the ground, dance in the sight of the people, and then + again sink into the earth.<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a></p></div> + +<p>The sun dance was normally an annual ceremony, but sometimes a year passed +without one. The dance was theoretically dependent on someone going to the +keeper and saying, "I dreamed of it (<i>i.e.</i>, the sun dance)," or on the +keeper himself dreaming of it. On two occasions a second dance was held in the +dance lodge after the keeper had removed the sacred doll at the close of the +first dance, because a second man had also dreamed of it.<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> +After the dream is announced the keeper hangs the image on his back and rides +out to all the camps, announcing, as he circles them, that he will conduct the +ceremony the following spring (May or June). This announcement was sometimes +made immediately after the close of the preceding dance, but usually it came +just before they intended to hold the dance.<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> +The keeper fasts while he is making the announcement, even if it takes three +days, as may happen when the camps were scattered. When they know the dance is +to be held, others vow to dance for a specified number of days, and all gather +near the dance ground. No one may absent himself: they are all afraid of his +medicine. When the tribe is assembled, the keeper circles the camp, again +bearing the sacred doll on his back.</p> + +<p>Two young men are selected by the keeper from one of the military societies<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> +to scout for a tree to serve as center pole for the dance lodge. While +searching, they must refrain from drinking. About this time all those intending +to dance are building sweatlodges to purify themselves: the keeper must enter +each of these to direct the proceedings; this entails considerable work on him. +Should he be sick at this time, the doll is carried into the sweatlodge by the +captive in his stead. It is incumbent on the <i>tai'me</i> shield owners to +accompany this captive and help him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_440" id="Page_440">[Pg +440]</a></span> +perform the necessary ceremonies. When the tree for the center pole has been +selected, the whole camp moves after the keeper and his family to the dance +ground. A dozen or more old men follow immediately after him. The main body is +guarded front, rear, and both flanks by the military societies, as is customary +when a camp moves.<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> +The procession halts four times on its journey while the keeper smokes and +prays. Next, the soldier societies charge on the dance ground, or rather on a +pole erected there before the camp circle is established,<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> +according to Methvin (p. 64), but on the newly established camp itself according +to Scott's informants (p. 357).</p> + +<p>The next morning the man who has that privilege sets out with his wife to get +the hide of a young buffalo bull. When such a person dies, the keeper appoints +one of his kin to take his place.<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> +The couple must fast while on this hunt. If the buffalo is killed with a single +arrow, it is a favorable omen, if many are needed, the opposite is indicated. +The buffalo must be killed so that he falls on his belly with his head toward +the east. A broad strip of back skin, with the tail and head skin attached is +carried to the keeper's tipi, where feathers are tied to its head.<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a></p> + +<p>The next morning they set out to fetch the center pole. Scott describes a +parade around the camp circle by the military societies which then proceed to +charge the tree selected for the center pole, which is defended in sham combat +by one of the men's societies<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> +(<i>akiaik`to</i>, war with the trees). After the chiefs have recited their +coups, and prayers have been said by the sacred doll keeper and his wife, who +have brought the doll there, the tree is chopped down by a captive Mexican +woman. A captive is always selected for this difficult task, so that any harm +due to an error on her part may not fall on a tribesman. This function is always +performed by a Mexican woman: when she dies, the keeper appoints her successor. +As the tree falls, they shout and shoot in the air. The pole is carried to the +dance ground by a society designated by the keeper,<a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> +where a hole to receive it has been dug by a men's military society.<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> +The pole is set upright by a single medicineman who owns this privilege. The +buffalo hide is then fastened across the forks with its head to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_441" id="Page_441">[Pg +441]</a></span> +east and offerings of cloth, etc., brought by various individuals are tied to +it. In 1873 Battey observed:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The central post is ornamented near the ground with + the robes of buffalo calves, their heads up, as if in the act of climbing + it; each of the branches above the fork is ornamented in a similar manner, + with the addition of shawls, calico, scarfs, &c., and covered at the top + with black muslin. Attached to the fork is a bundle of cottonwood and willow + limbs, firmly bound together, and covered with a buffalo robe, with head and + horns, so as to form a rude image of a buffalo, to which were hung strips of + new calico, muslin, strouding, both blue and scarlet, feathers, shawls, &c., + of various lengths and qualities. The longer and more showy articles were + placed near the ends. This image was so placed as to face the east.<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<span class="caption">Fig. 1. Groundplan of Dance Lodge.</span> +<img src="images/grey441.png" alt="Fig. 1. Groundplan of Dance Lodge." height="335" width="369" /> +</div> + +<p>The center pole is not painted.</p> + +<p>After the center pole is in place, everyone, but especially the military +societies, assists in building the enclosing structure. The lodge is like those +of the Arapaho and Cheyenne: it is circular, the rafters rest on the center +pole, and the covering of boughs extends a third of the way to the center of the +roof. An entrance is left on the east side. A flat stone is placed here so that +every dancer passing through must set his foot on it. Wet sand is spread over +the ground in the dance lodge<a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> +and heaped around the base of the center pole. Two little round holes, walled in +with mud, are dug near the rear of the lodge to hold incense smudges. A screen +of cottonwood and cedar branches is constructed just north of these.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_442" id="Page_442">[Pg +442]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This business continued through the day, except for an + hour or two in the middle of the afternoon, when the old women<a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a>—the + grandmothers of the tribe—had a dance. The music consisted of singing and + drumming, done by several old women, who were squatted on the ground in a + circle. The dancers—old, gray-headed women, from sixty to eighty years of + age—performed in a circle around them for some time, finally striking off + upon a waddling run, one behind another; they formed a circle, came back + and, doubling so as to bring two together, threw their arms around each + other's necks, and trudged around for some time longer; then sat down, while + a youngish man circulated the pipe, from which each in turn took two or + three whiffs, and this ceremony ended.<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a></p> + +<p>[When the dance lodge was completed] the soldiers of the tribe then had a +frolic in and about it, running and jumping, striking and kicking, throwing one +another down, stripping and tearing the clothes off each other.<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a>... +Before this frolic was over, a party of ten or twelve warriors appeared, moving +a kind of shield to and fro before their bodies, making, in some manner (as I +was not near enough to see how it was done), a grating sound, not unlike the +filing of a mill-saw.<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a></p> + +<p>In the afternoon, a party of a dozen or more warriors and braves proceeded to +the medicine house, followed by a large proportion of the people of the +encampment. They were highly painted, and wore shirts only, with head-dresses of +feathers which extended down the backs to the ground, and were kept in their +proper places by means of an ornamented strap clasping the waist. Some of them +had long horns attached to their head-dresses. They were armed with lances and +revolvers, and carrying a couple of long poles mounted from end to end with +feathers, the one white and the other black. They also bore shields highly +ornamented with paint, feathers, and hair.</p> + +<p>They took their station upon the side opposite the entrance, the musicians +standing behind them.</p> + +<p>Many old women occupied a position to the right and near the entrance, who +set up a tremulous shrieking; the drums began to beat, and the dance began, the +party above described only participating in it.</p> + +<p>They at first slowly advanced towards the central post, followed by the +musicians several of whom carried a side of raw hide (dried), which was beaten +upon with sticks, making about as much music as to beat upon the sole of an old +shoe, while the drums, the voices of the women, and the rattling of pebbles in +instruments of raw hide filled out the choir.</p> + +<p>After slowly advancing nearly to the central post, they retired backward, +again advanced, a little farther than before; this was repeated several times, +each time advancing a little farther, until they crowded upon the spectators, +drew their revolvers, and discharged them into the air.</p> + +<p>Soon after, the women rushed forward with a shrieking yell, threw their +blankets violently upon the ground, at the feet of the retiring dancers, +snatched them up with the same tremulous shriek that had been before produced, +and retired; which closed this part of the entertainment. The ornamented shields +used on this occasion were afterwards hung up with the medicine.<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a></p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_443" id="Page_443">[Pg 443]</a></span></p> + +<p>These may be the shields which are associated with the <i>tai'me</i>. Later, +after the sacred doll has been brought into the lodge, they are either hung with +it on the cedar screen as Battey observed,<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> +or on stakes set up outside the dance lodge to the west, i.e., behind the image, +where Martinez saw them. No offerings are made to them there. It is incumbent on +a <i>tai'me</i> shield owner to dance with the associates (<i>g.uołg.uȧt`</i>) +in every sun dance so long as he continues to own the shield. He is not +considered one of the associates however. Shield owners always help the image +keeper when he asks their aid. They must also assist his captive substitute when +officiating in a sweatlodge. A shield owner cannot sell his shield, but he may +give it to his son in anticipation of his death, receiving presents in return. +Otherwise, on the death of its owner the shield is placed on his grave. Should a +son or nephew dream of it, he has the right to make a duplicate with the help of +the doll owner in order to keep it in the family. However, if any other man +dreams of it and wants to make the duplicate, he must pay the owner.<a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> +The shield is usually hung outside of its owner's tipi. The shield owners "must +not eat buffalo hearts, or touch a bearskin, or have anything to do with a +bear." Like the associates, "they must not smoke with their moccasins on,<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> +or kill, or eat any kind of rabbit, or kill or touch a skunk."<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> +These shields are used only in war as their owner's personal medicine: no +offerings are ever made to them.</p> + +<p>Late in the day, a number of men who have vowed to take part in the +subsequent dance, together with one woman who has the privilege,<a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> +are garbed in buffalo robes to represent the living animals. They gather to the +east of the lodge where they simulate the actions of a herd of buffalo. A man, +called a scout, starts from the entrance of the lodge with a firebrand and +circles about the herd until he meets a second man, mounted and carrying a +shield and a straight pipe, who thereupon drives the buffalo toward the dance +lodge, which they circle several times before negotiating the entrance. Once +inside they lie down; the man with the pipe dismounts and +enters. Picking up the hairs on the back of first one animal and another, he +says, "This is the fattest animal. He is our protector in war." Then he recites +a coup. This<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_444" id="Page_444">[Pg 444]</a></span> +designated (or makes ?) a brave man of that buffalo.<a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> +Both the man with the firebrand and he with the pipe ought to be medicinemen. +The present incumbent of the first office also has the privilege of erecting the +center pole. When these men die, the sacred doll keeper selects successors from +their families.<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a></p> + +<p>That evening after sunset the dance proper begins, to last four nights and +days, ending in the evening. The doll keeper proceeds to his own tipi, where, +with the assistance of seven other medicinemen (<i>tai'me</i> shield keepers and +some others not otherwise connected with the ceremony), he unwraps the <i>tai'me</i>. +Carrying it on his back, he walks to the dance lodge, and, completely circles it +four times, feigning to enter each time he passes the entrance. After entering, +he goes around by the south side to the northwest quadrant, where he plants the +image hanging on a staff. Formerly two or more of the minor images, <i>ta<sup>i</sup>lyúkȧ</i>, +were placed with the <i>tai'me</i>. After the image is in place the dancers +enter to perform for the night.</p> + +<p>The keeper dances throughout the whole four-day period. He is painted yellow, +with a design representing the sun, and sometimes another for the moon, drawn on +his chest and back. "His face was painted, like that of the Taimay itself, with +red and black zigzag lines downward from the eyes." He wears a yellow buckskin +kilt, a jackrabbit skin cap with down attached, and sage wristlets. He is +barefoot. He carries a bunch of cedar in his hand, and an eagle bone whistle +from which an eagle feather is pendent. Battey observed that he was painted +white at the "buffalo-herding" rite, and not painted at all in the dance proper.<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a></p> + +<p>Beside the <i>tai'me</i> keeper there are three classes of persons who dance; +the associates (<i>g.uołg.uȧt`</i>), the <i>tai'me</i> shield keepers, and the +common dancers. The four associates (Scott's "keeper's assistants") must dance +throughout the whole four day period. They appear in four successive dances +(normally four years), after which they choose successors from among those young +men, eighteen to thirty years old, who have made the best records in war. These +young men, with the assistance of their relatives,<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> +pay horses and buffalo robes for the privilege, receiving the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_445" id="Page_445">[Pg +445]</a></span> +regalia in return.<a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> +One who is chosen cannot refuse: if he does, he may expect a calamity. The +associate may belong to any of the military societies. His office does not +impose obligations of foolhardiness in war (such as the no-flight idea), but he +is obliged to act the part of an intrepid warrior, because he enjoys security in +battle.<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> +The associate must not look in a mirror lest he become blind,<a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> +nor can he touch a skunk or jackrabbit, nor remain near a fire where someone is +cooking. Dogs must not be permitted to jump over an associate. He must remove +his moccasins before he smokes, but others may keep theirs on when smoking in +his presence. The associate dances in order to live long and to be a great +warrior. His body is painted white or yellow: a round spot representing the sun +is painted on the middle of his chest, with a crescent moon (the concavity +upward) on both sides of the sun, and the same decoration is repeated on his +back. The skin is cut away as a sacrifice and to make these designs permanent +after his first dance. A scalp from a <i>tai'me</i> +shield hangs on his breast with two eagle feathers; another on his back. His +face is "ornamented with a green stripe across the forehead, and around down the +sides of the cheeks, to the corners of the mouth, and meeting on the chin."<a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> +He wears a yellow buckskin kilt, with his breechclout hung outside, like the +Arapaho and Cheyenne sun dancers. Bunches of sage are stuck into his belt, +others tied around his wrists and ankles, and carried in each hand. On his head +is either a cap of jackrabbitskin in which is stuck an eagle feather or a sage +wreath with down attached. He carries a bone whistle. Like the sacred doll +keeper and all other dancers, he is barefoot.<a name="FNanchor_42_42" id="FNanchor_42_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> +Battey saw three associates purify themselves in the incense from the censors, +and then dance on piles of sage.<a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a></p> + +<p>The <i>tai'me</i> shield owners, who dance with the associates are sometimes +painted yellow or green with pictures of the sun and moon on their bodies, but +otherwise they wear the regalia of the common dancers.</p> + +<p>The rank and file of the dancers are men, never women. Anyone may vow to +dance a certain number of days, with the object of becoming a better warrior and +living long.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>They believe that it warded off sickness, caused + happiness, prosperity, many children, success in war, and plenty of buffalo + for all the people. It was frequently vowed by persons in danger from + sickness or the enemy.<a name="FNanchor_44_44" id="FNanchor_44_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a></p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_446" id="Page_446"> +[Pg 446]</a></span></p> + +<p>Sometimes a medicineman danced to intercede for a sick man. A sick man who +had vowed to attend the dance in order to be cured would be carried into the +dance lodge, but he would not dance. These dancers make offerings to the <i> +tai'me</i>. They do not pay the doll keeper in order to enter the dance, and +they have no rights in any subsequent performance by reason of having once +participated. Like all other dancers they must fast and go without water during +the period that they dance; they can however, smoke, provided the proper rites +are observed.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>... The pipe was filled, brought forward, and laid + upon the ground; the person, carefully turning the stem towards the fire, + and bedding it in the sand, so that the bowl should remain in an upright + position, arose and stood with his back towards it, or facing the medicine. + It was then approached by one of the musicians, who, in a squatting + position, raised his hand reverently towards the sun, the medicine, the top + of the central post, or buffalo; then, passing his hands slowly over the + pipe, took it up with his left hand, and taking a pinch from the bowl with + the thumb and fore finger of the right, held it to the sun, the medicine, + the top of the central post, then the bottom, and finally covered it up in + the ground. He then proceeded to light the pipe, blowing a whiff of smoke + towards the several objects of adoration, and placed it carefully where he + found it, in reversed order, that is, with the stem from the fire. The + person who brought it had stood waiting all this time for it. He now took it + up and retired to the dancers, who, wrapped in buffalo robes, were waiting, + in a squatting position, to receive it. The sand where the pipe had lain was + carefully smoothed by the hand, and all marks of it wholly obliterated.<a name="FNanchor_45_45" id="FNanchor_45_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a></p></div> + +<p>These dancers are painted white; they wear white buckskin kilts, with the +breechclout outside, carry bone whistles, and are barefoot. They have no +headdress, wrist or ankle ornaments. They paint themselves.<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a> +There is only one style of paint used by either the principal or the common +dancers throughout the sun dance.</p> + +<p>The dancers form a line on the east side of the lodge facing the image. Their +step is that characteristic of the sun dance of other tribes: they stand in +place, alternately bending their knees and rising on their toes. They dance +intermittently throughout four days and nights; the common dancers leave as the +periods for which they have vowed to dance have elapsed or when they can no +longer stand the combined strain of fasting, thirsting, and dancing. Martinez +left after three days and nights. The "four days and nights" which are specified +are in reality only three nights and days; evidently the first day of +preliminary dancing is included to fill out the quota to the magic "four." In +Scott's account, the dancers perform on the first day from evening to the middle +of the night, and on the succeeding days from sunrise to the chorus's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_447" id="Page_447">[Pg +447]</a></span> +breakfast, nine o'clock to dinner, four in the afternoon to sundown, and from +evening to midnight, ending in the evening of the fourth day. The dance Battey +describes evidently began in the evening of the 18th and continued +intermittently to late afternoon of the 21st. Apparently the dancers do not +leave the lodge during this entire period.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>19th</i> [June, 1873.]—Music and dancing continued + in the medicine house through the night. At an early hour this morning I + went thither with Couguet, and witnessed one dance throughout. The ground + inside the enclosure had been carefully cleared of grass, sticks, and roots, + and covered, several inches deep, with a clean, white sand. A screen had + been constructed on the side opposite the entrance, by sticking small + cottonwoods and cedars deep into the ground, so as to preserve them fresh as + long as possible. A space was left, two or three feet wide, between it and + the enclosing wall, in which the dancers prepared themselves for the dance, + and in front of which was the medicine. This consisted of an image, lying on + the ground, but so concealed from view, in the screen, as to render its form + indistinguishable; above it was a large fan, made of eagle quills, [an + error, these are crow feathers], with the quill part lengthened out nearly a + foot, by inserting a stick into it, and securing it there. These were held + in a spread form by means of a willow rod, or wire, bent in a circular form; + above this was a mass of feathers, concealing an image, on each side of + which were several shields, highly decorated with feathers and paint. + Various other paraphernalia of heathen worship were suspended in the screen, + among these shields or over them, impossible for me to describe so as to be + comprehended. A mound had also been thrown up around the central post of the + building, two feet high, and perhaps five feet in diameter.</p> + +<p>The musicians, who, if I mistake not, are the war chiefs, were squatted on +the ground, in true heathen style, to the left, and near the entrance, having +Indian drums and rattles. The music was sounding when we entered.</p> + +<p>Presently the dancers came from behind the screen; their faces, arms, and the +upper part of their bodies were painted white; a soft, white buckskin skirt, +secured about the loins, descended nearly to the ankles, while the +breech-cloth,—blue on this occasion,—hanging to the ground, outside the skirt, +both in front and behind, completed the dress. They faced the medicine—shall I +say idols? for it was conducted with all the solemnity of worship,—jumping up +and down in true time with the beating of the drums, while a bone whistle in +their mouths, through which the breath escaped as they jumped about, and the +singing of the women, completed the music. The dancers continued to face the +medicine, with arms stretched upwards and towards it,—their eyes as it were +riveted to it. They were apparently oblivious to all surroundings, except the +music and what was before them.</p> + +<p>After some time, a middle-aged man, painted as the others, but wearing a +buffalo robe, issued from behind the screen, facing the entrance, but having his +eyes fixed upon the sun, upon which he stood gazing, without winking or moving a +muscle, for some time, then began slowly to incline his head from side to side, +as if to avoid some obstruction in his view of it, swaying his body slightly, +then, stepping slowly from side to side—forward—backward—increasing his motions, +both in rapidity and extent, until in appearance nearly frantic, his robes fell +off, leaving him—except his blue breechclout—entirely naked. In this condition +he jumped and ran about the enclosure,—head, arms, and legs all equally +participating in the violence of his gestures,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_448" id="Page_448">[Pg +448]</a></span>—every joint of his body apparently loosened, his eyes only +fixed. I wondered how, with every joint apparently dislocated, and every +muscular fibre relaxed, he could maintain the upright position.</p> + +<p>Thus he continued to exercise without ceasing, or once removing his eyes from +the sun, until the sweat ran down in great rolling drops, washing the white +paint into streaks no more ornamental than the original painting, and he was at +length compelled to retire, from mere exhaustion, the other dancers still +continuing their exercises.</p> + +<p>Presently another man [the <i>tai'me</i> keeper] entered from behind the +screen, wearing an Indian fur cap and a blue breechcloth reaching to the ground. +He was unpainted, and had a human scalp fastened to his scalplock, the soft, +flowing hair of which, spreading out upon his naked back, bore mute testimony to +the tragical death of some unfortunate white woman. This man, with a kind of +half running jump, still in step with the music, went around all the dancers, +who did not notice him, with one arm stretched out over his heads, first in one +direction, then the other, turning his course at every time, after stopping in +front of the medicine, and making some indescribable motions before it. He +sometimes parted the feathers concealing the small image, appearing to examine +it minutely, as if searching for something, and sometimes putting his lips to +it, as if in the act of kissing it. [He takes some medicine root into his mouth, +chews it and blows it on the dancers.]<a name="FNanchor_47_47" id="FNanchor_47_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> +At length, after repeated examinations, he, apparently for the first time, +discovered the fan, and took hold of it hesitatingly, and as if afraid.</p> + +<p>This was loosed from its fastenings by a hand behind the screen, and he +slowly raised it up, looking intently at it, while the expression of his +countenance indicated a fearfulness of the result of handling an object whose +hidden and mysterious powers were so far beyond his comprehension. He held it up +before the medicine, waved it up and down, and from side to side, then, turning +round so as to face the dancers and spectators, waved it from side to side near +the ground, once around the dancers; then, raising it above his head, he waved +it in the same manner, performing another circle around the dancers.</p> + +<p>Then, with gestures of striking, and a countenance scowling as with fierce +rage, he began to chase them around and around the ring, [i.e., around the +center pole] from left to right. Finally, getting one of them separated from the +rest, he pursued him with the most fiend-like attitude, fiercely striking at him +with his fan. The pursued one fled from him with a countenance expressive of +almost death-like terror, until, after several rounds, he stumbled and fell +heavily to the ground. Another and another were thus separated from the dancers, +pursued, and fell before the mystical power of the fan, and the act closed.<a name="FNanchor_48_48" id="FNanchor_48_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a></p></div> + +<p>The "feather-killing" (<i>staiĕnkiăł</i>, he runs after them with feathers) +occurs every day in the late forenoon.<a name="FNanchor_49_49" id="FNanchor_49_49"></a><a href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a> +The associates as well as the other dancers, are fanned into unconsciousness.<a name="FNanchor_50_50" id="FNanchor_50_50"></a><a href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> +In such a condition they would try to get visions: they would rise, call for a +pipe, and announce what they had seen.<a name="FNanchor_51_51" id="FNanchor_51_51"></a><a href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_449" id="Page_449">[Pg 449]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Being called to a council of the war chiefs, I went no + more to the medicine house to-day, though the music and dancing continued + the whole time, by day and by night, with short intervals between the + different acts, to give opportunity for rest, arranging dress, painting, and + such other changes as the programme of the ceremony demanded.</p> + +<p><i>20th.</i>—Saw but one dance to-day. Quite a quantity of goods, such as +blankets, strouding (blue and scarlet list-cloth), calico, shawls, scarfs, and +other Indian wares, had been carried into the medicine house previous to my +entrance. The dancers had been painted white, three of them [the <i>g.uolg.uȧt`</i>] +ornamented with a green stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of +the cheeks, to the corner of the mouth, and meeting on the chin. A round green +spot was painted on the back and breast, about three inches in diameter, while +on either side of it, and somewhat elevated above it, was a crescent of the same +size and color. Two small, hollow mounds of sand and clay had been made before +the medicine, in which fire was placed, and kept just sufficiently burning, with +the partially dried cottonwood leaves, cedar twigs, and probably tobacco, to +produce a smoke. A small fire was burning near the musicians, for lighting +pipes, tightening drums, &c.</p> + +<p>When all was ready, the three young men, who were painted as described, were +led, each by a man clad in a buffalo robe [possibly the former <i>g.uolg.uȧt`</i> +who were transferring their privileges], near to the smoking mounds in front of +the medicine. An ornamented fur cap was, with some ceremony, placed upon the +head of one of them; wisps of green wild wormwood were fastened to the wrists +and ankles, which being done, he reverently raised his hands above his head, +leaning forward over one of the mounds, brought them down nearly to it; then, +straightening up, passed his hands over his face and stroked his breast. This +was repeated several times; then, after holding one foot, and the other, over +the mound, as if to warm them, two or three times, he went around the central +post, and back to the other mound, where the same ceremony was repeated. During +this whole ceremony I could perceive that his lips moved, though he uttered +nothing. I afterwards learned that it was in prayer to this effect: "May this +medicine render me brave in war, proof against the weapons of my enemies, strong +in the chase, wise in council; and, finally, may it preserve me to a good age, +and may I at last die in peace among my own people." The others, one at a time, +were similarly brought forward, and went through with the same ceremony. Three +bunches of wild wormwood were then placed on the ground in a row, crossing the +line of entrance, and between it and the central post, upon which the three +young men were placed by their attendants, who stood behind them, with their +hands upon their shoulders, the music playing all the time. Two or three men +then approached the pile of goods, selected therefrom some plaid shawls, +strouding, blankets, scarfs, and an umbrella, and hung them over the medicine; +this being done, the six men began to dance,—the three foremost ones upon the +wormwood, with their arms stretched towards the medicine, the three others with +their hands still resting upon the shoulders of the former. After some time the +latter retired; the other dancers came from behind the screen, and joined in the +dance, which continued until they were driven off by the medicine chief, as +described in yesterday's dance. All these ceremonies had a sacred significance, +which I did not understand, but have been informed that they believe any article +of wearing apparel, or of harness for their horses, hung up by the medicine +during these ceremonies, receives a charmed power to protect their wearers from +disease, or the assaults of their enemies, during the year.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_450" id="Page_450">[Pg 450]</a></span> +</p><p><i>21st.</i>—At one of the dances to-day, all but one retired behind the +screen, who continued to dance by himself for a long time. Various articles were +brought forward, and laid upon the ground, which he took up and hung in +proximity to the medicine. After along time, the other dancers reappeared, and +he retired; these continued their exercises, until driven off as before. The +last dance differed from the preceding in this: the last man selected and +separated from the others by the medicine chief to be driven off, though he ran +from him, did not appear terrified, and would not fall down, but retired, with +the medicine chief, behind the screen.</p> + +<p>At one of the dances to-day, five human scalps were exhibited,—one attached +to each of the right wrists of two men, and one to each wrist of another, +besides the one worn attached to the scalp lock of the medicine chief. Two of +these scalps were from the heads of Indians. They had all been tanned, and +evidently belonged with the medicine fixtures.</p> + +<p>The whole ceremony closed about four o'clock in the afternoon. The medicine +was packed away by the medicine chief, and the several articles which had been +hung about it—medicated, I suppose, or, in other words, sanctified by proximity +to the sacred things during the ceremonies, and consequently having power to +protect their possessors from evil—were restored to the proper owners. They then +packed them, took them upon their backs, formed into a procession, and marched, +to the music of the drums, around and out of the medicine house, whence every +one took the direction of his or her own lodge, and the ceremonies of the great +medicine were ended.<a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a></p></div> + +<p>At the end of the ceremony, the image keeper chews up some medicine root and +prepares a drink, of which the dancers are permitted to imbibe a little.<a name="FNanchor_53_53" id="FNanchor_53_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a></p> + +<p>After the image has been removed, old clothing is hung on the center pole as +a sacrifice. Once Martinez saw a horse tied to the center pole as a sacrifice to +the sun. It remained there until it starved to death. Horses were also painted +and placed, together with blankets and similar valuables, on high hills as +sacrifices. Others beside the associates sacrificed their flesh to the sun at +this time, or in fact, whenever they wanted to, as Martinez has done. The Kiowa +never suspended their dancers, as in the self-torture dance of other tribes, +neither in the sun dance, nor when an individual sought a vision while fasting +alone in the mountains.</p> + +<p>The night the dance closes everyone joins in a hilarious time in the dance +lodge. Next morning the camp circle breaks up, and the warriors soon go off to +war.<a name="FNanchor_54_54" id="FNanchor_54_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> +They do not molest the dance lodge, though other tribes passing that way may do +so: the Kiowa do not care. +</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"> +<h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label"> + [1]</span></a> Methvin, J. J., <i>Andele, or The Mexican-Kiowa Captive</i>. <i> + A Story of Real Life among the Indians</i> + (Louisville, Kentucky, 1899).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label"> + [2]</span></a> Scott, Hugh Lenox, "Notes on the Kado, or Sun Dance of the + Kiowa" (<i>American Anthropologist</i>, N. S., vol. 13, pp. 345-379, 1911). + The phonetic system used in the present paper is that of the "Phonetic + Transcription of Indian Languages" (<i>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections</i>, + vol. 66, no. 6, 1916), 2-7.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label"> + [3]</span></a> Mooney, James, "Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians" (<i>Seventeenth + Annual Report</i>, <i>Bureau of American Ethnology</i>, part 1, pp. 129-445, + Washington, 1911), 385.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label"> + [4]</span></a> Lowie, R. H., "Societies of the Kiowa" (this series, vol. + 11), 847; Mooney, 325, 338.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label"> + [5]</span></a> Mooney, 253, states the contrary.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label"> + [6]</span></a> Mooney, 240; Plate LXIX shows a model (see Scott, 349).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label"> + [7]</span></a> This coupling of purchase with inheritance is strictly + comparable to the Hidatsa bundle (this volume, 416-417).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label"> + [8]</span></a> Scott, 369, 373.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label"> + [9]</span></a> If this is more than a general taboo against women handling + sacred objects, it has its parallel in a similar Crow bias (this volume, + 13).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label"> + [10]</span></a> Mooney, 241, 323, 324.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label"> + [11]</span></a> Mooney, 239.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label"> + [12]</span></a> Mooney, 279, 343.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label"> + [13]</span></a> Lowie, 842.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label"> + [14]</span></a> Lowie, 843.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label"> + [15]</span></a> Compare, Battey, Thomas C., <i>The Life and Adventures of a + Quaker among the Indians</i> (Boston, 1876) 185.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label"> + [16]</span></a> The Southern Cheyenne also charge and count coup on some + sticks marking the site of the dance lodge (G. A. Dorsey, <i>Cheyenne Sun + Dance</i>).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label"> + [17]</span></a> Cf. 83, 109. Mooney, 349.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label"> + [18]</span></a> Scott, 358-360, 365. In this account the hide is taken into + a sweatlodge at this juncture.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label"> + [19]</span></a> "Foot-soldiers," Scott, 360-361.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label"> + [20]</span></a> Lowie, 843.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label"> + [21]</span></a> Not by a woman's society as Scott's informant states (361).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label"> + [22]</span></a> Battey, 170.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label"> + [23]</span></a> By the "old women soldiers" according to Scott (361), but + Martinez informs me that, with the exception of the dance described by + Battey, the two women's societies have no significant part in the sun dance.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label"> + [24]</span></a> The Old Woman society (Lowie, 850).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label"> + [25]</span></a> Battey, 168.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label"> + [26]</span></a> Cf. Lowie, 843.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label"> + [27]</span></a> Battey, 169.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label"> + [28]</span></a> Battey, 170-172. War singing <i>gwudańke</i>, was customary + before an expedition set out for war (Lowie, 850).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label"> + [29]</span></a> Scott, Pl. XXV.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label"> + [30]</span></a> Evidently a shield of this type was made by Koñate, who was + instructed to do so by the <i>tai'me</i> + which appeared to him as he lay wounded (Mooney, 304).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label"> + [31]</span></a> Lewis notes this custom for the Shoshoni, and Lowie for + their medicinemen when treating the sick (Lowie, Northern Shoshone, + 213-214). The Crow do not smoke where their moccasins are hung up, according + to Maximilian, (Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 + [Coblenz, 1841], I, 400).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label"> + [32]</span></a> Scott, 373.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label"> + [33]</span></a> Scott, 362.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label"> + [34]</span></a> Martinez puts this performance after the image has been + brought into the dance lodge: this does not seem correct.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label"> + [35]</span></a> Battey has the keeper signal to the herd with a firebrand. + Neither Battey nor Scott mention a mounted herder; the former puts the pipe + in the hands of the keeper, and the latter in those of a third man who + remains in the dance lodge, but in Scott's account also the function of the + pipe is to force the buffalo to enter the lodge. In Battey's account two men + assist the keeper in designating warriors, and in Scott's three men with + straight pipes do it. (Battey, 172-173; Scott, 362-364).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label"> + [36]</span></a> Battey, 173, 176; Scott, 351-352, 367, Pl. XXII; Methvin, + 66, notes that his feet are painted black with sage wreaths about his + ankles.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label"> + [37]</span></a> Lowie, 843.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label"> + [38]</span></a> Martinez, in Methvin's account, (71), states that the + payment is made in four successive years.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label"> + [39]</span></a> Methvin, 71; Scott, 352, states that these men directed the + sun dance as substitutes for the keeper and did the ceremonial painting, but + this is contrary to my information.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label"> + [40]</span></a> Compare Mooney, 296.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label"> + [41]</span></a> Battey, 178.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_42_42" id="Footnote_42_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_42_42"><span class="label"> + [42]</span></a> Compare Scott, 352, 368, Pls. XVIII, XXII; Methvin, 70-71.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_43_43" id="Footnote_43_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_43_43"><span class="label"> + [43]</span></a> Battey, 178-179.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_44_44" id="Footnote_44_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_44_44"><span class="label"> + [44]</span></a> Scott, 347.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_45_45" id="Footnote_45_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_45_45"><span class="label"> + [45]</span></a> Battey, 181-182.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_46_46" id="Footnote_46_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_46_46"><span class="label"> + [46]</span></a> Mooney, 302, notes that one of these individuals carried his + personal medicine in the dance.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_47_47" id="Footnote_47_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_47_47"><span class="label"> + [47]</span></a> Methvin, 66; Scott, 366.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_48_48" id="Footnote_48_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_48_48"><span class="label"> + [48]</span></a> Battey, 173-177.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_49_49" id="Footnote_49_49"></a><a href="#FNanchor_49_49"><span class="label"> + [49]</span></a> Once, not three times a day as Scott states (366).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_50_50" id="Footnote_50_50"></a><a href="#FNanchor_50_50"><span class="label"> + [50]</span></a> Scott, 366, places raven fans in hands of the associates.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51"><span class="label"> + [51]</span></a> In the ghost dance a shaman hypnotizes the dancers by waving + a feather or scarf before their faces. The subject staggers into the ring + and falls (Mooney, <i>Ghost dance</i>, 925-926). This performance may not be + related to that of the Kiowa, since it appeared among the Sioux before the + southern Plains tribes took up the ghost dance. On the other hand, the + Paiute, from whom the ghost dance was derived, did not hypnotize.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label"> + [52]</span></a> Battey, 177-181.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_53_53" id="Footnote_53_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_53_53"><span class="label"> + [53]</span></a> Scott, 365, 367.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_54_54" id="Footnote_54_54"></a><a href="#FNanchor_54_54"><span class="label"> + [54]</span></a> Mooney, <i>Kiowa Calendar History</i>, 282, 297, 304, 321, + 322. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance + +Author: Leslie Spier + +Release Date: May 28, 2011 [EBook #36224] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS + OF + THE AMERICAN MUSEUM + OF NATURAL HISTORY + + VOL. XVI, PART VI + + + NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE + BY + LESLIE SPIER + + + NEW YORK + PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES + 1921 + + + + + NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE. + + BY LESLIE SPIER. + + + + + ILLUSTRATIONS. + TEXT FIGURES. + + PAGE. + 1. Groundplan of Dance Lodge 441 + + + + +NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE. + + +The following notes were obtained from Andres Martinez (Andele, a +Mexican captive of the Kiowa whose history[1] is well known) in August, +1919. Attention was directed in the first instance to the organization +of the dance, but a brief description of the whole ceremony was also +obtained, chiefly by way of comments on Scott's account.[2] The last +Kiowa sun dance was held in 1887.[3] + +The Kiowa sun dance is the prerogative of the individual who owns the +sacred image, the _tai'me_. He deputes the ancillary offices where he +sees fit, although there is a well-defined tendency for them to be +hereditary. The predominant idea of this image is that of a war +medicine. Thus the dance is fundamentally like that of the Crow, but it +differs from it in two important respects. First, the Kiowa rites +cluster about only one particular medicine, whereas among the Crow, any +one of a number of medicine dolls may be used in the ceremony. The +question arises whether the dozen minor Kiowa images, which are +sometimes brought into the dance, were more recently acquired or +constructed in order to reproduce the functions of the _tai'me_, or +whether one medicine doll has completely overshadowed all the others, as +seemed about to happen among the Crow. The evidence favors the first +view, since no rites, other than those attendant on any personal +medicine, are described, or even intimated, for the minor images. The +second difference is, that while the Crow shaman invokes his medicine +for any one who appeals to him for aid, acting only in a directive +capacity, the Kiowa _tai'me_ owner is himself the principal suppliant. +Were it not for the hereditary bias in the distribution of ceremonial +functions, the Kiowa sun dance would be the prerogative of one man as +completely as that of the Crow is, when the latter is once under way. +The hereditary principle does not appear in the military societies +except in the ownership of the medicine lance or arrow (_ze'bo_).[4] + +The Kiowa sun dance (_k'o{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}dun_ specifically the name for the lodge) was +an annual tribal affair, in which the associated Kiowa Apache freely +joined.[5] It was danced in an effort to obtain material benefits from, +or through, the medicine doll in the possession of the medicineman, who +is at the same time director and principal performer. + + This is a small image, less than 2 feet in length, representing a + human figure dressed in a robe of white feathers, with a headdress + consisting of a single upright feather and pendants of ermine skin, + with numerous strands of blue beads around its neck, and painted + upon the face, breast, and back with designs symbolic of the sun and + moon. [Martinez says the face is entirely obscured by hanging + beads.] The image itself is of dark-green stone, in form rudely + resembling a human head and bust, probably shaped by art like the + stone fetishes of the Pueblo tribes. It is preserved in a rawhide + box in charge of the hereditary keeper, and is never under any + circumstances exposed to view except at the annual sun dance, when + it is fastened to a short upright stick planted within the medicine + lodge, near the western side.... The ancient _tai'me_ image was of + buckskin, with a stalk of Indian tobacco for a headdress. This + buckskin image was left in the medicine lodge, with all the other + adornments and sacrificial offerings, at the close of each ceremony. + The present _tai'me_ is one of three, two of which came originally + from the Crows, through an Arapaho who married into the Kiowa tribe, + while the third came by capture from the Blackfeet.[6] + +The bundle containing the image is usually hung outside of its keeper's +tipi. It is not customary to expose the image except at the sun dance, +but tobacco is placed with it from time to time. Its function outside of +the dance is identical with its use there: those who need its aid make +vows to it, which they fulfil by sacrificing horses, etc., and making +sweatlodges. The image is the property of one man, or more properly of +his family, since it may be inherited by his blood relatives. If the +transfer is made before the father's death, payment and a sweatlodge +must be given by the son.[7] After Long Foot died about 1870, as he had +no son, it passed into the possession of three of his nephews in +succession, and reverted in 1894 to his daughter who still has it.[8] +While she may handle the image, she would not be permitted to enter the +dance with it.[9] There the functions which would normally devolve on +her would be performed in their entirety by a captive. This captive has +been trained to the position in order to take the place of the image +keeper should he be sick. A captive is chosen for the substitute so that +a calamity incurred by a mischance in the proceedings may fall on him +alone and not on the Kiowa. The erstwhile substitute, a Mexican, is +still living. The image keeper, like his four associates, must not look +in a mirror, nor touch a skunk or jackrabbit. One who touches these +animals cannot enter the tipi where the doll is housed until four days +have elapsed. No dog is allowed in this tipi, nor is one permitted to +jump over the keeper or his four associates, the _g.uolg.uat`_. + +There are ten or twelve minor images (_tailyuka_) which strongly +resemble the _tai'me_ in function, as they are essentially war +medicines. Most of them were in the keeping of men other than the sacred +doll owner, but two were kept by him for a time.[10] They have little or +no part in the sun dance. + + The _Gadombitsonhi_, "Old-woman-under-the-ground," belonged to the + Kinep band of the Kiowa. It was a small image, less than a foot + high, representing a woman with flowing hair. It was exposed in + front of the _tai'me_ at the great sun-dance ceremony, and by some + unexplained jugglery the priest in charge of it caused it to rise + out of the ground, dance in the sight of the people, and then again + sink into the earth.[11] + +The sun dance was normally an annual ceremony, but sometimes a year +passed without one. The dance was theoretically dependent on someone +going to the keeper and saying, "I dreamed of it (_i.e._, the sun +dance)," or on the keeper himself dreaming of it. On two occasions a +second dance was held in the dance lodge after the keeper had removed +the sacred doll at the close of the first dance, because a second man +had also dreamed of it.[12] After the dream is announced the keeper +hangs the image on his back and rides out to all the camps, announcing, +as he circles them, that he will conduct the ceremony the following +spring (May or June). This announcement was sometimes made immediately +after the close of the preceding dance, but usually it came just before +they intended to hold the dance.[13] The keeper fasts while he is making +the announcement, even if it takes three days, as may happen when the +camps were scattered. When they know the dance is to be held, others vow +to dance for a specified number of days, and all gather near the dance +ground. No one may absent himself: they are all afraid of his medicine. +When the tribe is assembled, the keeper circles the camp, again bearing +the sacred doll on his back. + +Two young men are selected by the keeper from one of the military +societies[14] to scout for a tree to serve as center pole for the dance +lodge. While searching, they must refrain from drinking. About this time +all those intending to dance are building sweatlodges to purify +themselves: the keeper must enter each of these to direct the +proceedings; this entails considerable work on him. Should he be sick at +this time, the doll is carried into the sweatlodge by the captive in his +stead. It is incumbent on the _tai'me_ shield owners to accompany this +captive and help him perform the necessary ceremonies. When the tree for +the center pole has been selected, the whole camp moves after the keeper +and his family to the dance ground. A dozen or more old men follow +immediately after him. The main body is guarded front, rear, and both +flanks by the military societies, as is customary when a camp moves.[15] +The procession halts four times on its journey while the keeper smokes +and prays. Next, the soldier societies charge on the dance ground, +or rather on a pole erected there before the camp circle is +established,[16] according to Methvin (p. 64), but on the newly +established camp itself according to Scott's informants (p. 357). + +The next morning the man who has that privilege sets out with his wife +to get the hide of a young buffalo bull. When such a person dies, the +keeper appoints one of his kin to take his place.[17] The couple must +fast while on this hunt. If the buffalo is killed with a single arrow, +it is a favorable omen, if many are needed, the opposite is indicated. +The buffalo must be killed so that he falls on his belly with his head +toward the east. A broad strip of back skin, with the tail and head skin +attached is carried to the keeper's tipi, where feathers are tied to its +head.[18] + +The next morning they set out to fetch the center pole. Scott describes +a parade around the camp circle by the military societies which then +proceed to charge the tree selected for the center pole, which is +defended in sham combat by one of the men's societies[19] (_akiaik`to_, +war with the trees). After the chiefs have recited their coups, and +prayers have been said by the sacred doll keeper and his wife, who have +brought the doll there, the tree is chopped down by a captive Mexican +woman. A captive is always selected for this difficult task, so that any +harm due to an error on her part may not fall on a tribesman. This +function is always performed by a Mexican woman: when she dies, the +keeper appoints her successor. As the tree falls, they shout and shoot +in the air. The pole is carried to the dance ground by a society +designated by the keeper,[20] where a hole to receive it has been dug by +a men's military society.[21] The pole is set upright by a single +medicineman who owns this privilege. The buffalo hide is then fastened +across the forks with its head to the east and offerings of cloth, etc., +brought by various individuals are tied to it. In 1873 Battey +observed:-- + + The central post is ornamented near the ground with the robes of + buffalo calves, their heads up, as if in the act of climbing it; + each of the branches above the fork is ornamented in a similar + manner, with the addition of shawls, calico, scarfs, &c., and + covered at the top with black muslin. Attached to the fork is a + bundle of cottonwood and willow limbs, firmly bound together, and + covered with a buffalo robe, with head and horns, so as to form a + rude image of a buffalo, to which were hung strips of new calico, + muslin, strouding, both blue and scarlet, feathers, shawls, &c., of + various lengths and qualities. The longer and more showy articles + were placed near the ends. This image was so placed as to face the + east.[22] + +The center pole is not painted. + +After the center pole is in place, everyone, but especially the military +societies, assists in building the enclosing structure. The lodge is +like those of the Arapaho and Cheyenne: it is circular, the rafters rest +on the center pole, and the covering of boughs extends a third of the +way to the center of the roof. An entrance is left on the east side. A +flat stone is placed here so that every dancer passing through must set +his foot on it. Wet sand is spread over the ground in the dance +lodge[23] and heaped around the base of the center pole. Two little +round holes, walled in with mud, are dug near the rear of the lodge to +hold incense smudges. A screen of cottonwood and cedar branches is +constructed just north of these. + + This business continued through the day, except for an hour or two + in the middle of the afternoon, when the old women[24]--the + grandmothers of the tribe--had a dance. The music consisted of + singing and drumming, done by several old women, who were squatted + on the ground in a circle. The dancers--old, gray-headed women, from + sixty to eighty years of age--performed in a circle around them for + some time, finally striking off upon a waddling run, one behind + another; they formed a circle, came back and, doubling so as to + bring two together, threw their arms around each other's necks, and + trudged around for some time longer; then sat down, while a youngish + man circulated the pipe, from which each in turn took two or three + whiffs, and this ceremony ended.[25] + + [When the dance lodge was completed] the soldiers of the tribe then + had a frolic in and about it, running and jumping, striking and + kicking, throwing one another down, stripping and tearing the + clothes off each other.[26]... Before this frolic was over, a party + of ten or twelve warriors appeared, moving a kind of shield to and + fro before their bodies, making, in some manner (as I was not near + enough to see how it was done), a grating sound, not unlike the + filing of a mill-saw.[27] + + In the afternoon, a party of a dozen or more warriors and braves + proceeded to the medicine house, followed by a large proportion of + the people of the encampment. They were highly painted, and wore + shirts only, with head-dresses of feathers which extended down the + backs to the ground, and were kept in their proper places by means + of an ornamented strap clasping the waist. Some of them had long + horns attached to their head-dresses. They were armed with lances + and revolvers, and carrying a couple of long poles mounted from end + to end with feathers, the one white and the other black. They also + bore shields highly ornamented with paint, feathers, and hair. + + They took their station upon the side opposite the entrance, the + musicians standing behind them. + + Many old women occupied a position to the right and near the + entrance, who set up a tremulous shrieking; the drums began to beat, + and the dance began, the party above described only participating in + it. + + They at first slowly advanced towards the central post, followed by + the musicians several of whom carried a side of raw hide (dried), + which was beaten upon with sticks, making about as much music as to + beat upon the sole of an old shoe, while the drums, the voices of + the women, and the rattling of pebbles in instruments of raw hide + filled out the choir. + + After slowly advancing nearly to the central post, they retired + backward, again advanced, a little farther than before; this was + repeated several times, each time advancing a little farther, until + they crowded upon the spectators, drew their revolvers, and + discharged them into the air. + + Soon after, the women rushed forward with a shrieking yell, threw + their blankets violently upon the ground, at the feet of the + retiring dancers, snatched them up with the same tremulous shriek + that had been before produced, and retired; which closed this part + of the entertainment. The ornamented shields used on this occasion + were afterwards hung up with the medicine.[28] + +These may be the shields which are associated with the _tai'me_. Later, +after the sacred doll has been brought into the lodge, they are either +hung with it on the cedar screen as Battey observed,[29] or on stakes +set up outside the dance lodge to the west, i.e., behind the image, +where Martinez saw them. No offerings are made to them there. It is +incumbent on a _tai'me_ shield owner to dance with the associates +(_g.uolg.uat`_) in every sun dance so long as he continues to own the +shield. He is not considered one of the associates however. Shield +owners always help the image keeper when he asks their aid. They must +also assist his captive substitute when officiating in a sweatlodge. A +shield owner cannot sell his shield, but he may give it to his son in +anticipation of his death, receiving presents in return. Otherwise, on +the death of its owner the shield is placed on his grave. Should a son +or nephew dream of it, he has the right to make a duplicate with the +help of the doll owner in order to keep it in the family. However, if +any other man dreams of it and wants to make the duplicate, he must pay +the owner.[30] The shield is usually hung outside of its owner's tipi. +The shield owners "must not eat buffalo hearts, or touch a bearskin, or +have anything to do with a bear." Like the associates, "they must not +smoke with their moccasins on,[31] or kill, or eat any kind of rabbit, +or kill or touch a skunk."[32] These shields are used only in war as +their owner's personal medicine: no offerings are ever made to them. + +Late in the day, a number of men who have vowed to take part in the +subsequent dance, together with one woman who has the privilege,[33] are +garbed in buffalo robes to represent the living animals. They gather to +the east of the lodge where they simulate the actions of a herd of +buffalo. A man, called a scout, starts from the entrance of the lodge +with a firebrand and circles about the herd until he meets a second man, +mounted and carrying a shield and a straight pipe, who thereupon drives +the buffalo toward the dance lodge, which they circle several times +before negotiating the entrance. Once inside they lie down; the man with +the pipe dismounts and enters. Picking up the hairs on the back of first +one animal and another, he says, "This is the fattest animal. He is our +protector in war." Then he recites a coup. This designated (or makes ?) +a brave man of that buffalo.[34] Both the man with the firebrand and he +with the pipe ought to be medicinemen. The present incumbent of the +first office also has the privilege of erecting the center pole. When +these men die, the sacred doll keeper selects successors from their +families.[35] + +That evening after sunset the dance proper begins, to last four nights +and days, ending in the evening. The doll keeper proceeds to his own +tipi, where, with the assistance of seven other medicinemen (_tai'me_ +shield keepers and some others not otherwise connected with the +ceremony), he unwraps the _tai'me_. Carrying it on his back, he walks to +the dance lodge, and, completely circles it four times, feigning to +enter each time he passes the entrance. After entering, he goes around +by the south side to the northwest quadrant, where he plants the image +hanging on a staff. Formerly two or more of the minor images, +_tailyuka_, were placed with the _tai'me_. After the image is in place +the dancers enter to perform for the night. + +The keeper dances throughout the whole four-day period. He is painted +yellow, with a design representing the sun, and sometimes another for +the moon, drawn on his chest and back. "His face was painted, like that +of the Taimay itself, with red and black zigzag lines downward from the +eyes." He wears a yellow buckskin kilt, a jackrabbit skin cap with down +attached, and sage wristlets. He is barefoot. He carries a bunch of +cedar in his hand, and an eagle bone whistle from which an eagle feather +is pendent. Battey observed that he was painted white at the +"buffalo-herding" rite, and not painted at all in the dance proper.[36] + +Beside the _tai'me_ keeper there are three classes of persons who dance; +the associates (_g.uolg.uat`_), the _tai'me_ shield keepers, and the +common dancers. The four associates (Scott's "keeper's assistants") must +dance throughout the whole four day period. They appear in four +successive dances (normally four years), after which they choose +successors from among those young men, eighteen to thirty years old, who +have made the best records in war. These young men, with the assistance +of their relatives,[37] pay horses and buffalo robes for the privilege, +receiving the regalia in return.[38] One who is chosen cannot refuse: if +he does, he may expect a calamity. The associate may belong to any of +the military societies. His office does not impose obligations of +foolhardiness in war (such as the no-flight idea), but he is obliged to +act the part of an intrepid warrior, because he enjoys security in +battle.[39] The associate must not look in a mirror lest he become +blind,[40] nor can he touch a skunk or jackrabbit, nor remain near a +fire where someone is cooking. Dogs must not be permitted to jump over +an associate. He must remove his moccasins before he smokes, but others +may keep theirs on when smoking in his presence. The associate dances in +order to live long and to be a great warrior. His body is painted white +or yellow: a round spot representing the sun is painted on the middle of +his chest, with a crescent moon (the concavity upward) on both sides of +the sun, and the same decoration is repeated on his back. The skin is +cut away as a sacrifice and to make these designs permanent after his +first dance. A scalp from a _tai'me_ shield hangs on his breast with two +eagle feathers; another on his back. His face is "ornamented with a +green stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of the +cheeks, to the corners of the mouth, and meeting on the chin."[41] He +wears a yellow buckskin kilt, with his breechclout hung outside, like +the Arapaho and Cheyenne sun dancers. Bunches of sage are stuck into his +belt, others tied around his wrists and ankles, and carried in each +hand. On his head is either a cap of jackrabbitskin in which is stuck an +eagle feather or a sage wreath with down attached. He carries a bone +whistle. Like the sacred doll keeper and all other dancers, he is +barefoot.[42] Battey saw three associates purify themselves in the +incense from the censors, and then dance on piles of sage.[43] + +The _tai'me_ shield owners, who dance with the associates are sometimes +painted yellow or green with pictures of the sun and moon on their +bodies, but otherwise they wear the regalia of the common dancers. + +The rank and file of the dancers are men, never women. Anyone may vow to +dance a certain number of days, with the object of becoming a better +warrior and living long. + + They believe that it warded off sickness, caused happiness, + prosperity, many children, success in war, and plenty of buffalo for + all the people. It was frequently vowed by persons in danger from + sickness or the enemy.[44] + +Sometimes a medicineman danced to intercede for a sick man. A sick man +who had vowed to attend the dance in order to be cured would be carried +into the dance lodge, but he would not dance. These dancers make +offerings to the _tai'me_. They do not pay the doll keeper in order to +enter the dance, and they have no rights in any subsequent performance +by reason of having once participated. Like all other dancers they must +fast and go without water during the period that they dance; they can +however, smoke, provided the proper rites are observed. + + ... The pipe was filled, brought forward, and laid upon the ground; + the person, carefully turning the stem towards the fire, and bedding + it in the sand, so that the bowl should remain in an upright + position, arose and stood with his back towards it, or facing the + medicine. It was then approached by one of the musicians, who, in a + squatting position, raised his hand reverently towards the sun, the + medicine, the top of the central post, or buffalo; then, passing his + hands slowly over the pipe, took it up with his left hand, and + taking a pinch from the bowl with the thumb and fore finger of the + right, held it to the sun, the medicine, the top of the central + post, then the bottom, and finally covered it up in the ground. He + then proceeded to light the pipe, blowing a whiff of smoke towards + the several objects of adoration, and placed it carefully where he + found it, in reversed order, that is, with the stem from the fire. + The person who brought it had stood waiting all this time for it. He + now took it up and retired to the dancers, who, wrapped in buffalo + robes, were waiting, in a squatting position, to receive it. The + sand where the pipe had lain was carefully smoothed by the hand, and + all marks of it wholly obliterated.[45] + +These dancers are painted white; they wear white buckskin kilts, with +the breechclout outside, carry bone whistles, and are barefoot. They +have no headdress, wrist or ankle ornaments. They paint themselves.[46] +There is only one style of paint used by either the principal or the +common dancers throughout the sun dance. + +The dancers form a line on the east side of the lodge facing the image. +Their step is that characteristic of the sun dance of other tribes: they +stand in place, alternately bending their knees and rising on their +toes. They dance intermittently throughout four days and nights; the +common dancers leave as the periods for which they have vowed to dance +have elapsed or when they can no longer stand the combined strain of +fasting, thirsting, and dancing. Martinez left after three days and +nights. The "four days and nights" which are specified are in reality +only three nights and days; evidently the first day of preliminary +dancing is included to fill out the quota to the magic "four." In +Scott's account, the dancers perform on the first day from evening to +the middle of the night, and on the succeeding days from sunrise to the +chorus's breakfast, nine o'clock to dinner, four in the afternoon to +sundown, and from evening to midnight, ending in the evening of the +fourth day. The dance Battey describes evidently began in the evening of +the 18th and continued intermittently to late afternoon of the 21st. +Apparently the dancers do not leave the lodge during this entire period. + + _19th_ [June, 1873.]--Music and dancing continued in the medicine + house through the night. At an early hour this morning I went + thither with Couguet, and witnessed one dance throughout. The ground + inside the enclosure had been carefully cleared of grass, sticks, + and roots, and covered, several inches deep, with a clean, white + sand. A screen had been constructed on the side opposite the + entrance, by sticking small cottonwoods and cedars deep into the + ground, so as to preserve them fresh as long as possible. A space + was left, two or three feet wide, between it and the enclosing wall, + in which the dancers prepared themselves for the dance, and in front + of which was the medicine. This consisted of an image, lying on the + ground, but so concealed from view, in the screen, as to render its + form indistinguishable; above it was a large fan, made of eagle + quills, [an error, these are crow feathers], with the quill part + lengthened out nearly a foot, by inserting a stick into it, and + securing it there. These were held in a spread form by means of a + willow rod, or wire, bent in a circular form; above this was a mass + of feathers, concealing an image, on each side of which were several + shields, highly decorated with feathers and paint. Various other + paraphernalia of heathen worship were suspended in the screen, among + these shields or over them, impossible for me to describe so as to + be comprehended. A mound had also been thrown up around the central + post of the building, two feet high, and perhaps five feet in + diameter. + + The musicians, who, if I mistake not, are the war chiefs, were + squatted on the ground, in true heathen style, to the left, and near + the entrance, having Indian drums and rattles. The music was + sounding when we entered. + + Presently the dancers came from behind the screen; their faces, + arms, and the upper part of their bodies were painted white; a soft, + white buckskin skirt, secured about the loins, descended nearly to + the ankles, while the breech-cloth,--blue on this occasion,--hanging + to the ground, outside the skirt, both in front and behind, + completed the dress. They faced the medicine--shall I say idols? for + it was conducted with all the solemnity of worship,--jumping up and + down in true time with the beating of the drums, while a bone + whistle in their mouths, through which the breath escaped as they + jumped about, and the singing of the women, completed the music. The + dancers continued to face the medicine, with arms stretched upwards + and towards it,--their eyes as it were riveted to it. They were + apparently oblivious to all surroundings, except the music and what + was before them. + + After some time, a middle-aged man, painted as the others, but + wearing a buffalo robe, issued from behind the screen, facing + the entrance, but having his eyes fixed upon the sun, upon + which he stood gazing, without winking or moving a muscle, + for some time, then began slowly to incline his head from side + to side, as if to avoid some obstruction in his view of it, + swaying his body slightly, then, stepping slowly from side to + side--forward--backward--increasing his motions, both in rapidity + and extent, until in appearance nearly frantic, his robes fell off, + leaving him--except his blue breechclout--entirely naked. In this + condition he jumped and ran about the enclosure,--head, arms, + and legs all equally participating in the violence of his + gestures,--every joint of his body apparently loosened, his eyes + only fixed. I wondered how, with every joint apparently dislocated, + and every muscular fibre relaxed, he could maintain the upright + position. + + Thus he continued to exercise without ceasing, or once removing his + eyes from the sun, until the sweat ran down in great rolling drops, + washing the white paint into streaks no more ornamental than the + original painting, and he was at length compelled to retire, from + mere exhaustion, the other dancers still continuing their exercises. + + Presently another man [the _tai'me_ keeper] entered from behind the + screen, wearing an Indian fur cap and a blue breechcloth reaching to + the ground. He was unpainted, and had a human scalp fastened to his + scalplock, the soft, flowing hair of which, spreading out upon his + naked back, bore mute testimony to the tragical death of some + unfortunate white woman. This man, with a kind of half running jump, + still in step with the music, went around all the dancers, who did + not notice him, with one arm stretched out over his heads, first in + one direction, then the other, turning his course at every time, + after stopping in front of the medicine, and making some + indescribable motions before it. He sometimes parted the feathers + concealing the small image, appearing to examine it minutely, as if + searching for something, and sometimes putting his lips to it, as if + in the act of kissing it. [He takes some medicine root into his + mouth, chews it and blows it on the dancers.][47] At length, after + repeated examinations, he, apparently for the first time, discovered + the fan, and took hold of it hesitatingly, and as if afraid. + + This was loosed from its fastenings by a hand behind the screen, and + he slowly raised it up, looking intently at it, while the expression + of his countenance indicated a fearfulness of the result of handling + an object whose hidden and mysterious powers were so far beyond his + comprehension. He held it up before the medicine, waved it up and + down, and from side to side, then, turning round so as to face the + dancers and spectators, waved it from side to side near the ground, + once around the dancers; then, raising it above his head, he waved + it in the same manner, performing another circle around the dancers. + + Then, with gestures of striking, and a countenance scowling as with + fierce rage, he began to chase them around and around the ring, + [i.e., around the center pole] from left to right. Finally, getting + one of them separated from the rest, he pursued him with the most + fiend-like attitude, fiercely striking at him with his fan. The + pursued one fled from him with a countenance expressive of almost + death-like terror, until, after several rounds, he stumbled and fell + heavily to the ground. Another and another were thus separated from + the dancers, pursued, and fell before the mystical power of the fan, + and the act closed.[48] + +The "feather-killing" (_staienkial_, he runs after them with feathers) +occurs every day in the late forenoon.[49] The associates as well as the +other dancers, are fanned into unconsciousness.[50] In such a condition +they would try to get visions: they would rise, call for a pipe, and +announce what they had seen.[51] + + Being called to a council of the war chiefs, I went no more to the + medicine house to-day, though the music and dancing continued the + whole time, by day and by night, with short intervals between the + different acts, to give opportunity for rest, arranging dress, + painting, and such other changes as the programme of the ceremony + demanded. + + _20th._--Saw but one dance to-day. Quite a quantity of goods, such + as blankets, strouding (blue and scarlet list-cloth), calico, + shawls, scarfs, and other Indian wares, had been carried into the + medicine house previous to my entrance. The dancers had been painted + white, three of them [the _g.uolg.uat`_] ornamented with a green + stripe across the forehead, and around down the sides of the cheeks, + to the corner of the mouth, and meeting on the chin. A round green + spot was painted on the back and breast, about three inches in + diameter, while on either side of it, and somewhat elevated above + it, was a crescent of the same size and color. Two small, hollow + mounds of sand and clay had been made before the medicine, in which + fire was placed, and kept just sufficiently burning, with the + partially dried cottonwood leaves, cedar twigs, and probably + tobacco, to produce a smoke. A small fire was burning near the + musicians, for lighting pipes, tightening drums, &c. + + When all was ready, the three young men, who were painted as + described, were led, each by a man clad in a buffalo robe [possibly + the former _g.uolg.uat`_ who were transferring their privileges], + near to the smoking mounds in front of the medicine. An ornamented + fur cap was, with some ceremony, placed upon the head of one of + them; wisps of green wild wormwood were fastened to the wrists and + ankles, which being done, he reverently raised his hands above his + head, leaning forward over one of the mounds, brought them down + nearly to it; then, straightening up, passed his hands over his face + and stroked his breast. This was repeated several times; then, after + holding one foot, and the other, over the mound, as if to warm them, + two or three times, he went around the central post, and back to the + other mound, where the same ceremony was repeated. During this whole + ceremony I could perceive that his lips moved, though he uttered + nothing. I afterwards learned that it was in prayer to this effect: + "May this medicine render me brave in war, proof against the weapons + of my enemies, strong in the chase, wise in council; and, finally, + may it preserve me to a good age, and may I at last die in peace + among my own people." The others, one at a time, were similarly + brought forward, and went through with the same ceremony. Three + bunches of wild wormwood were then placed on the ground in a row, + crossing the line of entrance, and between it and the central post, + upon which the three young men were placed by their attendants, who + stood behind them, with their hands upon their shoulders, the music + playing all the time. Two or three men then approached the pile of + goods, selected therefrom some plaid shawls, strouding, blankets, + scarfs, and an umbrella, and hung them over the medicine; this being + done, the six men began to dance,--the three foremost ones upon the + wormwood, with their arms stretched towards the medicine, the three + others with their hands still resting upon the shoulders of the + former. After some time the latter retired; the other dancers came + from behind the screen, and joined in the dance, which continued + until they were driven off by the medicine chief, as described in + yesterday's dance. All these ceremonies had a sacred significance, + which I did not understand, but have been informed that they believe + any article of wearing apparel, or of harness for their horses, hung + up by the medicine during these ceremonies, receives a charmed power + to protect their wearers from disease, or the assaults of their + enemies, during the year. + + _21st._--At one of the dances to-day, all but one retired behind the + screen, who continued to dance by himself for a long time. Various + articles were brought forward, and laid upon the ground, which he + took up and hung in proximity to the medicine. After along time, the + other dancers reappeared, and he retired; these continued their + exercises, until driven off as before. The last dance differed from + the preceding in this: the last man selected and separated from the + others by the medicine chief to be driven off, though he ran from + him, did not appear terrified, and would not fall down, but retired, + with the medicine chief, behind the screen. + + At one of the dances to-day, five human scalps were exhibited,--one + attached to each of the right wrists of two men, and one to each + wrist of another, besides the one worn attached to the scalp lock of + the medicine chief. Two of these scalps were from the heads of + Indians. They had all been tanned, and evidently belonged with the + medicine fixtures. + + The whole ceremony closed about four o'clock in the afternoon. The + medicine was packed away by the medicine chief, and the several + articles which had been hung about it--medicated, I suppose, or, in + other words, sanctified by proximity to the sacred things during + the ceremonies, and consequently having power to protect their + possessors from evil--were restored to the proper owners. They then + packed them, took them upon their backs, formed into a procession, + and marched, to the music of the drums, around and out of the + medicine house, whence every one took the direction of his or her + own lodge, and the ceremonies of the great medicine were ended.[52] + +At the end of the ceremony, the image keeper chews up some medicine root +and prepares a drink, of which the dancers are permitted to imbibe a +little.[53] + +After the image has been removed, old clothing is hung on the center +pole as a sacrifice. Once Martinez saw a horse tied to the center pole +as a sacrifice to the sun. It remained there until it starved to death. +Horses were also painted and placed, together with blankets and similar +valuables, on high hills as sacrifices. Others beside the associates +sacrificed their flesh to the sun at this time, or in fact, whenever +they wanted to, as Martinez has done. The Kiowa never suspended their +dancers, as in the self-torture dance of other tribes, neither in the +sun dance, nor when an individual sought a vision while fasting alone in +the mountains. + +The night the dance closes everyone joins in a hilarious time in the +dance lodge. 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H., "Societies of the Kiowa" (this series, vol. 11), 847; +Mooney, 325, 338. + +[5] Mooney, 253, states the contrary. + +[6] Mooney, 240; Plate LXIX shows a model (see Scott, 349). + +[7] This coupling of purchase with inheritance is strictly comparable to +the Hidatsa bundle (this volume, 416-417). + +[8] Scott, 369, 373. + +[9] If this is more than a general taboo against women handling sacred +objects, it has its parallel in a similar Crow bias (this volume, 13). + +[10] Mooney, 241, 323, 324. + +[11] Mooney, 239. + +[12] Mooney, 279, 343. + +[13] Lowie, 842. + +[14] Lowie, 843. + +[15] Compare, Battey, Thomas C., _The Life and Adventures of a Quaker +among the Indians_ (Boston, 1876) 185. + +[16] The Southern Cheyenne also charge and count coup on some sticks +marking the site of the dance lodge (G. A. Dorsey, _Cheyenne Sun +Dance_). + +[17] Cf. 83, 109. Mooney, 349. + +[18] Scott, 358-360, 365. In this account the hide is taken into a +sweatlodge at this juncture. + +[19] "Foot-soldiers," Scott, 360-361. + +[20] Lowie, 843. + +[21] Not by a woman's society as Scott's informant states (361). + +[22] Battey, 170. + +[23] By the "old women soldiers" according to Scott (361), but Martinez +informs me that, with the exception of the dance described by Battey, +the two women's societies have no significant part in the sun dance. + +[24] The Old Woman society (Lowie, 850). + +[25] Battey, 168. + +[26] Cf. Lowie, 843. + +[27] Battey, 169. + +[28] Battey, 170-172. War singing _gwudanke_, was customary before an +expedition set out for war (Lowie, 850). + +[29] Scott, Pl. XXV. + +[30] Evidently a shield of this type was made by Konate, who was +instructed to do so by the _tai'me_ which appeared to him as he lay +wounded (Mooney, 304). + +[31] Lewis notes this custom for the Shoshoni, and Lowie for their +medicinemen when treating the sick (Lowie, Northern Shoshone, 213-214). +The Crow do not smoke where their moccasins are hung up, according to +Maximilian, (Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis +1834 [Coblenz, 1841], I, 400). + +[32] Scott, 373. + +[33] Scott, 362. + +[34] Martinez puts this performance after the image has been brought +into the dance lodge: this does not seem correct. + +[35] Battey has the keeper signal to the herd with a firebrand. Neither +Battey nor Scott mention a mounted herder; the former puts the pipe in +the hands of the keeper, and the latter in those of a third man who +remains in the dance lodge, but in Scott's account also the function of +the pipe is to force the buffalo to enter the lodge. In Battey's account +two men assist the keeper in designating warriors, and in Scott's three +men with straight pipes do it. (Battey, 172-173; Scott, 362-364). + +[36] Battey, 173, 176; Scott, 351-352, 367, Pl. XXII; Methvin, 66, notes +that his feet are painted black with sage wreaths about his ankles. + +[37] Lowie, 843. + +[38] Martinez, in Methvin's account, (71), states that the payment is +made in four successive years. + +[39] Methvin, 71; Scott, 352, states that these men directed the sun +dance as substitutes for the keeper and did the ceremonial painting, but +this is contrary to my information. + +[40] Compare Mooney, 296. + +[41] Battey, 178. + +[42] Compare Scott, 352, 368, Pls. XVIII, XXII; Methvin, 70-71. + +[43] Battey, 178-179. + +[44] Scott, 347. + +[45] Battey, 181-182. + +[46] Mooney, 302, notes that one of these individuals carried his +personal medicine in the dance. + +[47] Methvin, 66; Scott, 366. + +[48] Battey, 173-177. + +[49] Once, not three times a day as Scott states (366). + +[50] Scott, 366, places raven fans in hands of the associates. + +[51] In the ghost dance a shaman hypnotizes the dancers by waving a +feather or scarf before their faces. The subject staggers into the ring +and falls (Mooney, _Ghost dance_, 925-926). This performance may not be +related to that of the Kiowa, since it appeared among the Sioux before +the southern Plains tribes took up the ghost dance. On the other hand, +the Paiute, from whom the ghost dance was derived, did not hypnotize. + +[52] Battey, 177-181. + +[53] Scott, 365, 367. + +[54] Mooney, _Kiowa Calendar History_, 282, 297, 304, 321, 322. Another +suggestive similarity to the Crow is the assumption of "no-flight" +obligations in both tribes at the sun dance (_Ibid._, 284, 287, 320). + + + + +Transcriber's note: On page 443, 'the the' changed to 'the' (Once inside +they lie down; the man with the pipe ...) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance, by Leslie Spier + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES ON THE KIOWA SUN DANCE *** + +***** This file should be named 36224.txt or 36224.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/2/2/36224/ + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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