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tourist thru Toledo. The Lincoln Highway goes directly thru Tama, 

 but recent grading has made it wiser to go thru Toledo or take the 

 south road from Belle Plain. It was soon apparent that the regular 

 Tama camp site was much inferior to one at the edge of the reservation 

 called the "Glad Hand," so we proceeded up the road a half mile to this 

 camp ground. When the weather is fine, the Lincoln Highway is 

 fine, for they surely worked the dirt road enough to keep it good, but 

 when it rained, one was marooned, and one horse power on a wagon 

 was superior to any number under the hood. 



Fig. 14. — Meskwaki Reservation along the Iowa River, Tama, Iowa. 



At the "Glad Hand," mine host, E. L. Price, furnished every facil- 

 ity for drying plants and caring for specimens, and was of great assist- 

 ance in getting acquainted with the Meskwaki. The store by the 

 roadside was a rendezvous for the Indians and a strategic point. Dr. 

 Truman Michelson, of the Bureau of Ethnology, has made it his head- 

 quarters for many years during his ethnic studies of the Meskwaki. 



From Dr. Bried, we learned that Jim Powiesheik, Charles Keosa- 

 tok, Mr. Joe Tesson and Kepeosatok would be our best sources of in- 

 formation. The Doctor gave us a little history of the Meskwaki. 

 The Indian Department calls these Indians the Sac and Fox, others 



