"Some tribes have twelve named moons in the year, but many tribes have not more than six; and different bands of the same tribe, if occupying widely separated sections of the country, will have different names for the same moon. Knowing well the habits of animals, and having roamed over vast areas, they readily recognize any special moon that may be mentioned, even though their name for it may be different. One of the nomenclatures used by the Teton-Sioux and Cheyenne beginning with the moon just before winter is as follows: 1. The moon the leaves fall off. 2. The moon the buffalo cow's foetus is getting large. 3. The moon the wolves run together. 4. The moon the skin of the foetus of buffalo commences to color. 5. The moon the hair gets thick on buffalo foetus; called also "men's mouth" or "hard mouth." 6. The sore-eyed moon; buffalo cows drop their calves. 7. The moon the ducks come. 8. The moon the grass commences to get green and some roots are fit to be eaten. 9. The moon the corn is planted. 10. The moon the buffalo bulls are fat. 11. The moon the buffalo cows are in season. 12. The moon that the plums get red" (_Clark, 16_). _Klamath and Modok._--Their months "do not coincide with the months of our calendar, for they extend from one new moon to the next one, and therefore should be more properly called moons or lunations. Twelve and a half of them make up the year, and they are counted on the fingers of both hands. The first moon of their year begins on the first new moon after their return from the _wokash_ harvest [about the end of August], at Klamath Marsh, which is the time when all the provisions and needful articles have been gathered in for the winter. They have now generally discarded the former method of counting moons upon fingers, and instead of it they reckon time by the seasons in which natural products are harvested (_Gatschet, 1_). _Bannock._--They distinguish the earlier moons thus: First, "running season for game;" second, "big moon;" third, "black smoke" (cold); fourth, "bare spots along the trail" (i. e., no snow in places); fifth, "little grass, or grass first comes up." They have no names for moons after the season gets warm (_Clark, 17_). [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXXX THE ANKO CALENDAR] THE ANKO MONTHLY CALENDAR (_August, 1889--July, 1893_) _T'águñótal P'a Sän._ The calendar begins about the first of August, 1889. The figure above the crescent (moon or month) is intended for the antler of a deer, in allusion to the name of this moon. No event is noted. _T'águñótal P'a._ The same symbol is used for the month. No event is recorded, because, as Anko explains, this part of his original calendar was accidentally burned.