[Illustration: FIG. 118--Winter 1855-56--Big-head kills an Ä´lähó.] SUMMER 1856 _Séñ-äló K`ádó_, "Prickly-pear sun dance." The prickly-pears or tunas (_Opuntia tortispina ?_) are shown above the medicine lodge. This dance was held at a place where there was an abundance of prickly-pears, at the mouth of a small creek, probably Caddo or Rate creek, entering Arkansas river about 10 miles below Bent's fort, in Colorado. It was held late in the fall, when the prickly-pears were ripe, instead of in midsummer, as usual, and the women gathered a large quantity. This circumstance has given the distinctive name to the _k`ádó_. The sweet fruit of the tuna is much prized by the Indians, who eat it raw, while the fleshy leaves are used as a mordant in their painting upon buckskin. [Illustration: FIG. 119--Summer 1856--Prickly-pear sun dance.] WINTER 1856-57 _Dó-gyäkódal-de Sai_, "Winter that they left their tipis behind." The two tipis above the winter mark are intended to convey the idea. After the last sun dance, while the Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho were still camped near Bent's fort, a Kiowa war party under Big-bow and Stumbling-bear went against the Navaho, while the rest, men and women, under old Lone-wolf, went after buffalo, leaving their tipis rolled up in care of Bent. On their return they found the Cheyenne in possession of their tipis, and on complaining to Bent he said, "I have given them to my people" (i. e., the Cheyenne). A quarrel ensued, in which the Cheyenne shot Lone-wolf's horse and slightly wounded one Kiowa and drove the others away, retaining possession of the tipis. This appears to have been the most serious break between the two tribes since they had made peace in 1840. [Illustration: FIG. 120--Winter 1856-57--Tipis left.] SUMMER 1857 _Ä´potó Ek`iädă´-de K`ádó_, "Sun dance when the forked stick sprouted." The figure (121) represents a forked stick, with leaves, growing out from the side of the medicine lodge.