Inspection of a Departing War Party
Ethnographic Notes
Pages 16-17: Inspection of a Departing War Party. The leader riding a spectacular roan overo-paint horse is likely Etahdleuh's father. Etahdleuh chose the rear view to show details of the hair decorations and headdresses of each man, which were unique "signatures" comparable to name glyphs, that would have been recognized and understood by all of the Kiowa. This is not merely "a picture." It is a careful depiction of a specific occasion, with each of the participants shown as they were actually dressed.
Four men in this party, wearing wide, red sashes diagonally across their backs, are Ka'itsenko Society warriors, the bravest men in the tribe (see the discussion with pagee 22). Two others, standing beside the sash-wearers and wearing more-narrow, "honorary" sashes, are their junior war-partners. Two others, each with a curved feather worn in his otter-fur turban, are members of the elite, Onde social class. Four of the men, including the leader, wear distinctive, bi-furcated arrangements of two "horns," with black tips, that are affixed in a rawhide base to the counter-weight of their hair-plates, and rise high above the tops of their heads.
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