MS 2002-27 Quitone Kiowa calendar
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2002-27
place: label: Place
content: North America
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Jimmy Quitone also known as Jimmy or James Quoetone, Gui-tone and Wolf Tail (1955-1956) was one of the elders from whom Wilbur S. Nye recorded much information about Kiowa history. According to Nye, he was the father of George Hunt and Guy Quitone.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 171 Drawings (visual works) (25 leaves, graphite, watercolor, and ink on card stock, 8.5 X 11 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1825-1921
container: label: Container
content: Box 2002-27
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Candace Greene donated the calendar to the National Anthropological Archives in 2002. She had received the calendar in 1984, as a gift from a former professor at the University of Oklahoma, William E. Bittle. Greene was a doctoral student at the university when Bittle retired in 1984. When he was departing, he left the calendar with another faculty member, asking him to pass it along to her because of her interest in Plains drawings. At the time she assumed that the calendar was a student project, probably a copy of a published calendar. However, as she became more familiar with Kiowa materials, she realized that the calendar did not follow any published works and should be considered an independent source of information. Greene contacted Dr. Bittle, but he recalled very little about its acquisition beyond the fact that someone in Oklahoma had given it to him many years before.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2002-27
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Calendars
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content: Pictographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection record is based on information presented in:

Greene, Candace S. and Russell Thornton. The Years the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Calendars
label: Genre/Form
content: Pictographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a Kiowa calendar consists on 25 sheet of heavy card stock. Each page contains two to four pictographs, arranged top to bottom and left to right. The calendar entries cover the period 1825-1921. A red diamond is used to signify winter and a green or yellow bar to signify summer. A depiction of the forked Medicine Lodge pole often accompanies the symbol for summer. 

No information is known about the original production of this calendar. However, the pictures are a close match to a tracing that Wilbur S. Nye made in the 1920s of a calendar on cloth belonging to Jimmy Quitone.  Although arranged in a different format, this may be considered a variant of the Quitone calendar. Nye recorded that while Quitone owned the calendar when he made the tracing, it had been produced by Johnny Anko and Hauvahte. Huvahte may be an alternate rendering of Habate, or Haba. Nye believed that the calendar was destroyed when the Quitone home burned in the 1930s.  

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Wilbur S. Nye's tracing of the Quitone calendar is in the collection of the Fort Sill Museum in Oklahoma together with his notes about the version that he examined (cat. no. D68.39.4).