PLATE XX
Kiowa calendar, painted on buckskin. The bars, twenty-nine in number, represent the years from 1864 onward. The crescents, thirty-seven in number, represent a lunar record, separate from the year-count. The figures attached to these signs are symbols of the events which mark the periods indicated. Compare, for other forms of pictographic and mnemonic record, Plates V, X, XXX, and Figure 2. After 17 ARBE, Plate LXXX.
