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roadway through the deep woods. At Neopit, a trim Httle town with its 

 lumber mill and log pond, its Indian school and a few general stores, and 

 its railroad, we fancied that we were again in civilization. However, we 

 saw only Indians at the up-to-date houses and all seemed to be having a 

 holiday. This fancy of civilization was soon dispelled as we passed out 

 of the little town and for fifteen to twenty miles through somber forests 

 and wild-swept highlands towards Keshena. 



Fig, 28. — Slukundy Falls, on the West Branch of the 

 Wolf River, Menomini Indian Reservation, Wiscon- 

 sin. 



The sandy road is good, if you are not tempted to pull off to the side 

 to investigate some cool spring or some beautiful rapids, like that shown 

 in figure 28. It was Sunday, and, just before we came to Keshena, we 

 saw a big dance ground by the roadside. Here a medicine dance was in 

 progress and many of the Menomini were gathered around a huge ob- 



