For this winter both calendars record a prairie fire which destroyed all the tipis and much of the other property of T'ébodal's and Â'dal-pepte's camps, northwest of Mount Scott, while most of the tribe had gone to the agency for rations. The Set-t'an calendar indicates the event by means of the picture of a tipi, streaked with red for the fire, above the winter mark. The Anko calendar has below the winter mark a peculiar symbol, which he explains to mean the rising flames. [Illustration: FIG. 180--Summer 1886--No sun dance; Policemen; Grass payment.] SUMMER 1886 There was no dance this summer, owing to the failure to find a buffalo for the purpose, consequently everybody remained at home--indicated on the Set-t'an calendar by the figure of a leafy tree, for summer, above an inclosure, intended to represent a field. As there was no dance, the Anko calendar for this summer lacks the medicine pole, while by means of a star and several circles he records the fact that he enlisted in the agency police force, and also that there was another payment of grass money by the cattlemen, this time to the Kiowa, being the first they had received. [Illustration: FIG. 181--Winter 1886-87--Peyi commits suicide.] WINTER 1886-87 For this winter both calendars note the suicide of Peyi, "Son-of-the-sand," nephew of the great chief Sun-boy. Having taken a horse without the owner's permission, he was reproved for it, which so hurt his feelings that, saying, "I have no father, mother, or brother, and no one cares for me," he went out and shot himself with a revolver. Indians are very sensitive to reproof or ridicule, and suicides among them from this cause are more frequent than is generally supposed. The Set-t'an calendar has above the winter mark the figure of a man holding a pistol, and with a wound in his side, the blood gushing from his mouth. The Anko calendar has a pistol below the winter mark. Two circles (dollars) above the winter mark have evidently been placed there inadvertently. [Illustration: FIG. 182--Summer 1887--No sun dance(?); Grass payment.] SUMMER 1887 _K`adóliä P'a K`ádó_, "Oak creek sun dance." According to the Set-t'an calendar, there was no sun dance this summer and everybody remained at home--indicated as before by the figure of a leafy tree above a square inclosure. This, however, is a mistake. The agent states that "the Kiowas held this year a sun dance with my permission, but with a distinct understanding that it should be the last, and (it) was not of a barbarous nature" (_Report, 109_). The dance was held near the mouth of _K adóliä P'a_, "Oak creek," a small southern tributary of the Washita above Rainy-mountain creek, and takes its name from the stream on which it was held. As the wild buffalo had now been exterminated, the animal for this occasion was bought from a ranchman named Charles Goodnight, who had a small herd of domesticated buffalo in northern Texas.