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ethnologist may be much puzzled when he learns their "Indian" name 

 for these species. A typical summer house and the drying of food is 

 shown in figure 16. 



Our chief source of information among the Meskwaki was John 

 Mcintosh or Kepeosatok. Kepeosatok is really a Potawatomi, who 

 was born in Milwaukee eighty-two years ago, "when the raspberries 

 were ripe." His early boyhood days were spent in Milwaukee and 

 around Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids. He early gave heed to 

 his elders and became one of the most famous medicine men ever 

 known in Wisconsin. When he married a Meskwaki maiden, he 



Fig. 16. — Meskwaki summer house, Tama, Iowa. 



naturally went out to their reservation to live. His collecting grounds 

 for herbs covered a circle of two hundred miles from Tama, and his 

 fame has spread thru several states. At one time he received $750.00 

 as a fee for a single cure, and has never taken any money unless the 

 patient was cured. Many white people have been cured by Kepeo- 

 satok. 



He not only carries in his head, the names and uses of many plants, 

 but also has three books of formulae for every conceivable disease. He 

 laments the passing of the medicine man and the fact that none of the 



