Kiowa winter count of Dohasan, summer 1838

Forfatter/Opretter:

Kiowa chief Dohasan

Kredit:

Mooney, James: "Calender History of the Kiowa Indians." The 17th. Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 1895-96. Part I. Washington, 1898. Government Printing Office

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The painting shows the Cheyenne and Arapaho attack on an united Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache and Comanche camp (a tipi for each tribe) at Wolf Creek, Oklahoma in the summer of 1838. A breast work protects the people in camp, made of trees cut down by the women.

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Public domain