The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-19

were marched in pitiful procession to Fort
Arbuckle under guard of a single repre-
sentative of the government. In the
midst of the procession were several cao-
tives. The first night of their march the
Tonkawas camped along the southwest
ern edge of the Chickasaw country. killed
one Of their prisoners and cut his body
into pieces.
They cooked the flesh in kettles and held
looked. on with the agony of fear and
their white guard turned his back. fearing
10 offer resistance. Songs, dances ard
hideous orgies were kept up until near
daybreak. 1t was hideous night for The
guard although he was forbidden to at
tend the ceremonies. After short stay
at Fort Arbuckle the man eaters" drift I'd
back to Texas. occasionally acting as
scouts against the wild Comanches.
4 second massacre was planned by their
enemies in 1874, but word came to them
in time and they were taken into Fort
Griffith for protection. AT this time the
remnants of the once powerful tribe num-
bered little more than 100. In 1872 an
agent was appointed for them, and two
years later they were removed to their
present reservation in Indian Territory.
In 1892 there We're sixty-six still alive; IN
1893 but fifty-three, thirteen of whom were
men. Now there are fifty in all.
Mr.. Mooney recently lived Indian in
the Kiowa country and while there heard
many tales of the man eaters" In their
sign language the Kiowas spell the name
the back outward and the index finger
brought forward which signifies man"
This sign they supplement by a sweeping
movement of the fingers, brought down
ward, which denotes eating. The kto-
was now are neighbors of the outlawed
Tonkawas. They told MIR. Mooney THAI
the latter were in the habit of lying in
wait for solitary Indians OF other tribes
men, women and children, not prisoners
of war-and of eating their flesh purely
to crafty their depraved appetities.
The story of a boy who was cooked by
the Tonkawas was told Mr.. Mooney by
a Lipan who lived with them in Texas.
This man said that he had missed this
youth, a Comanche captive, and after
ward found that the Tonkawas had him
in their cooking pot. They offered 70
compensate for the Lipans loss by offer
ing him a share of the feast but he de-
clined the honr. He saw the remains OF
his boy chopped into small pieces, which
were piled upon a strip of rawhde. The
feast was commenced at noon and con-
tinued until the last morsel of human
flesh had been devoured. 1t ended with a
dance
Mr.. Mooney afterward came in contact
with the Tonkawas and studied them. He
says Sentall, their chief, is a years old
and powerful. The cannibals describ I'd
their burial customs to him and stated
that all the property of the dead tribes
man is piled above the corpse and THAI
the latter's horses and dog are shot over
his grave. After the funeral his name
must never be mentioned. They told the
ethnologist that all of their people were
afraid of their mother-in-laws, to whom
they must never speak and on whom
they must never look. But when the man
of science automatically touched upon
the subject of cannibalism generally
these crafty savages affected utter Ig
norance.
All Indians formerly practiced a GER
tain amount of cannibalism as war
ceremony. This was true even in the
eastern part of the Unitedj States. The
Miamis had a cannibal society whose
members were obliged to eat all captives
delivered TO them for that purpose. Even
the Kiowas, who told of the Tonkawas'
misdeeds. stated TO Mr.. Mooney during
his visit among them that only few
years back they had a secret brother
hood each of whose members was pledS-
ed to eat the heart of his first enemy
killed by him in battle. The old war chief
in whose family the ethnologist lived was
a member of the society.
A number of British soldiers were eaten
by some Ogibwas and Ottawas in their
garrison at Mackinaw in 1764. One white
man. who had been adopted by these In
dams previous to the massacre, was Of
fered a dish of cooked flesh. which he
would have accepted had he not spied a
human hand in the dish. This sicken III
him and he begged TO be excused
An American prisoner was cooked and
eaten by the Indian allies Of the British
in view of the latter's fort on the Miami
during the war of 1872.
All of the Texas coast Indians were
cannibals and made n wholesale practice
of eating human flesh. About 1857 some
French pioneers built fort at Matagorda
Bay. Texas. but were subsequently cook
ed and eaten by n hand OF Karankawas.
who overpowered them. 'Attackapas
is the Choctaw name for the Indians of
southwestern Louisiana and a Louisiana
parish still bears it I'm spite of the fact
that 1t means "cannibal." The Wichitas
were formerly man eaters.
me Wichitas ate seventeen boys on a
single occasion. according to their own
confession TO a Frenchman who passed
through Arkansas. Indian Territory ard
Texas in 1719 Some Wichitas entertained
him and brought him boy captive taken
from another tribe. His hosts told him
that they had originally taken eighteen
such captives but had eaten all of the
others In fact. prisoners appear TO have
been taken by the gulf Indians as means
of gratifying their appetites rather than
of avenging their wounded honor.
The word 'cannibar is Of Indian
origin. according to Mr.. Mooney. 1t is a
corruption of "Cariba" or Gambia" the
proper name Of the Carib. that dread
scourge Of the Antilles. who reigned over
the West Indies over 800 years ago.
Human limbs. hung up to dry in the
sun like hams. were seen by Spaniaris
who visited the Caribs. Aztecs made n
Great business OF cannihalism in con-
nection with their sacrifices Of prisoners