Societies of the Kiowas

By Robert Harry Lowie

A history book describing the social life and customs of the Kiowa tribe of North American Indians. The Kiowa tribe were hunters living at the sources of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers in present-day Montana. During periods of deep snow, they hunted with bow and arrow with the dog, their only domesticated animal, drawing the travois with poles attached to harnesses

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066141301

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Robert Harry Lowie

Societies of the Kiowas

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066141301

Table of Contents

PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION.

MEN'S SOCIETIES.

Q'ō´i'tsë`ñko.

WOMEN'S SOCIETIES.

OTHER DANCES.

PREFACE.

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Before summarizing the results of the investigation of Plains Indian societies undertaken by the Department of Anthropology for a number of years, it appeared desirable to secure data from the Kiowa respecting certain theoretical points that had developed from a study of other tribes. Though Mr. Mooney's printed Kiowa material seemed to decide these questions implicitly, it seemed best to take a view of the subject in the field from the particular vantage ground afforded by the systematic survey of the region presented in this volume. For this purpose I made a side trip to Anadarko, Oklahoma, in June, 1915. There I had the good fortune of enlisting the services of Mr. Andres Martinez, a Mexican who had been captured by the Apache while a boy, sold to the Kiowa two years later, and who had lived a large portion of his life as a Kiowa among Kiowa, marrying native women, entering some of the men's societies, and so forth. Mr. Martinez became my main informant and acted as my interpreter in questioning two full-blood Indians on doubtful points. He also corrected several errors in his published biography,[1] which he explained were due to