Editing James Mooney (section)

=== ''Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians'' (1898) ===
"The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct,"Mooney said. "The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and the adequacy of the method employed."<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Mooney, James, 1861-1921.|title=Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians|date=1898|publisher=G.P.O|oclc=875150017}}</ref> Mooney earned the confidence of the [[Kiowa]] who told him about their system of calendars to record events. They told him that the first calendar keeper in their tribe was Little Bluff, or ''Tohausan,'' principal chief of the tribe from 1833 to 1866. Mooney also worked with two other calendar keepers, ''Settan,'' or Little Bear; and ''[[Ankopaaingyadete|Ankopaingyadete]],'' meaning "In the Middle of Many Tracks", and commonly known as ''Anko.'' Other Plains tribes kept pictorial records, which are known as [[winter count]]s. They were commonly created in the winter, when the people were indoors, and expressed major events of the year.

The Kiowa recorded two events for each year, offering a finer-grained record and twice as many entries for any given period. [[Silver Horn]] (1860–1940), or ''Haungooah,'' was the most highly esteemed artist of the Kiowa tribe in the 19th and 20th centuries, and kept a calendar. He was a respected religious leader in his later years.<ref name=":1" />