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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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arnestly before the medicine, in hope that it would pity him andmake him prosperous. The chief priest of the Grows rewarded himby giving him the taime image, notwithstanding the protests of theCrows, who were angry at seeing such favor shown to a strangei.Fortune now smiled upon the Arapaho; he stole many horses and wonnew blessings for himself by tying numerous ponies to the medicinelodge as a sacrifice to the taime, until at last his herd was of the lar-gest. Being now grown wealthy, when next his own people visited theCrows he collected his horses and started back with them, but the jeal-ous Crows followed secretly, untied the taime bag from the pole infront of his tipi and stole it, as Rachel stole her fathers gods. On dis-covering his loss the Arapaho made duplicates, which he took backwith him to his own people. He afterward married a Kiowa womanand went to live with her tribe, bringing with him the taime, whichthus became the medicine of the Kiowa. Since that time the taime has
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zo HI-DCQ t-Z UJ a. MOONET) THE TAIME 241 beeu banded down in his family, the keeper being consequently alwaysof part Arapalio blood. The present guardian is a woman, fiuiaii, who succeeded to the officeon the death of Taimete, Taime-man in 1894; she is the ninth suc-cessive guardian, tUe Arapaho being the first. The fifth keeper, Anso-giani, Long Foot, or Ansote, held it forty years—from before theOsage massacre until his death in the winter of 1870-71. Assumingthat the combined terms of the first four guardians equaled in time thecombined terms of the last four—i. e., about sixty or sixty-five years, orfrom about 1830 to 18J4—we would have 1770 as the approximate datewhen the Kiowa obtained the present taime image. As previouslystated, they already had the ceremony and an equivalent image ofbuckskin. Of the two taime images, both of which were of the sameshape and material, one, the man, was small, only a few inches inlength, while the other, the woman, was muc

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