38 YEARBOOK, PUBLIC MUSEUM, MILWAUKEE [Vol. III. 



This trip narrative is not the place to speak of the many plants 

 used as food, medicine, or fiber, which will be treated in a regular 

 bulletin. The writer made two trips to the Meskwaki country, one 

 from May 28th to June 20th and the other from September 15th to 

 October 5th, 1923. The last trip proved our contention that Iowa 

 soil was fine for corn, but poor for roads. On one stretch we found 

 thirty-five cars so badly stuck in the mud on the Lincoln Highway that 

 they had to be pulled out by farmers. This number included the 

 writer, who had just finished a photograph proving that the roads 

 were muddj^ when he had to be pulled out backwards. On the four 

 hundred and twelve mile western trip on September 15th we negoti-. 

 ated the distance with ease and in good time but returning it was a 

 different story until we reached concrete at the edge of Clinton County 

 just past Lowden, Iowa. We were hugely pleased to clock eighty-five 

 miles in one whole day. We saw plenty who didn't do that, and one 

 party who had been waiting a whole week for dry weather to come. 

 Iowa mud means something to us. 



BOTANIZING AMONG THE OJIBWE 



By Huron H. Smith" 



When Tenus E. Tuttrup resigned as Helper in Botany, in June 

 1923, the writer was left to do the investigations of the Chippewa'^ alone. 

 Mr. Victor Hunkel was so interested in the subject, that he was willing 

 to go along as an assistant at his own expense. "Vic" was a good auto 

 mechanic and a willing worker. He was also very apt in securing de- 

 sired photographs, while the writer distracted the attention of the sub- 

 ject to other things. 



We left Milwaukee on July 6th, bound for Lac du Flambeau. Our 

 first stop was at the Menomini reservation at Keshena, where we vis- 

 ited our many Menomini friends, including Uncle John Satterlee. We 

 had been warned that "47" was bad from Zoar to Phlox, and it surely 

 was. It took an hour to go eight miles, during which time the car 

 was twice stuck in the mud. However, we finally got out and went on 

 to Antigo, where we spent the night in our pneumatic sleeping bags, 

 on the judge's stand at the county fair grounds. Next morning we 

 took up our journey to Rhinelander and Minocqua. An over-night 

 stop was made at Red Arrow camp where, at Mr. Clarence Rasmus- 

 sen's request, we gave an Indian talk to the eighty boy campers. Then 

 we retraced our route and finally reached the reservation. 



^Curator of Botany, Milwaukee Public Museum. 

 ^The terms Chippewa and Ojibwe are synonymous. 



